KAMLOOPS, Canada: A dentist in British Columbia has recently been banned to sedate patients after professional misconduct for a second time.
Bobby Rishiraj was faced with this disciplinary action related to his wrong sedation practices. In his record of sedation practices, a teenage girl suffered a heart attack that severely damaged her brain while under deep sedation.
He was banned after Rishiraj admitted to committing professional misconduct for the second time despite allegations he "incompetently practised dentistry".
Earlier, he was also charged for performing deep sedation on 12 patients without approval. College of Dental Surgeons of British Columbia discipline panel also found that he failed to properly monitor patients while they were sedated and ran his clinic to promote "efficiencies" by trying to see as many patients as possible in as little time as possible.
Rishiraj also acknowledged that he failed to maintain proper sedation records and record patients' levels of consciousness and required pre-operative assessments. He also admitted that he didn't make sure staff were properly trained to assist with moderate sedation and had not maintained medication and equipment on the clinic's mobile emergency cart and properly stored restricted drugs.