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Officials say Silvanna Moreno died on March 18 hours after a dental surgery and after her family discovered something seemed wrong Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

A 9-year-old girl died hours after she went under anesthesia for a dental procedure at a San Diego office where a dentist had been investigated after a patient nearly died. The procedure took place ...

Accidental awareness under anesthesia (AAUA) has long been regarded as an uncommon complication in the operating room. Yet for the small percentage of patients who experience it, AAUA can leave ...

However, delayed gastric emptying could theoretically increase the risk for pulmonary aspiration during general anesthesia or deep sedation, a risk that the EMA described as "biologically plausible." ...