Aug 1, 2008 10:16 am US/Central
2 Dentists Lose License After Woman Dies In Office
School Principal Georgette Watson Died After Root Canal Surgery
CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) ―
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Georgette Watson died after a routine root canal surgery at the dental office of Joseph and Lawrence Feldman.
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Two North Side dentists had their licenses to practice suspended Thursday after a popular Logan Square elementary school principal died after a routine root canal surgery in December.
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation suspended the dental and controlled substance license and the conscious sedation permits of Joseph Feldman, D.D.S. and Lawrence Feldman, D.D.S., late Thursday afternoon, according to an IDFPR release. The Feldmans maintained a joint practice in Chicago in the 3400 block of North Broadway in the Lake View neighborhood on the North Side.
The Department has the authority to issue a summary suspension when it determines that the health and safety of the public may be in danger by the continued practice of a dentist, the release said.
Forty-six-year-old Georgette Watson, Brentano Math and Science Academy's principal, stopped breathing while in surgery Dec. 17 at the dental office in the 3400 block of Broadway, police said. She was pronounced dead at a hospital and died after having a root canal surgery while under some type of sedation. A police report stated Watson died after a heart attack.
The IDFPR launched an investigation immediately after learning of the death of Watson, according to the release, which said the probe found that the dentists and/or their staff failed to take a proper medical history of the patient prior to the sedation, provided doses of sedation medication that exceeded therapeutic doses, failed to perform properly preoperative and intraoperative monitoring of the patient's blood pressure, pulse respiration and oxygen saturation and failed to perform proper cardiac pulmonary resuscitation procedures on the patient.
The complaint also charges that the dentists failed to make sure their staff had the proper training for sedation procedures and emergencies.
The two dentists are no longer allowed to practice dentistry and their licenses will be suspended pending further proceedings before the Administrative Law Judge at the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and the Medical Disciplinary Board of the State of Illinois, the release said. A hearing has been scheduled for Aug. 13 at 10 a.m. on the 9th floor of the James R. Thompson Center.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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