The family of a 4-year-old Oregon child who suffered severe brain damage after being put under general anesthesia before a dental procedure has filed a $22 million civil suit against the dentist.
The medical negligence lawsuit filed on July 30 in Multnomah County Circuit Court alleges that the child, identified as M.L. in the document, overdosed on sevoflurane, which made the heart to briefly stop beating until the child was resuscitated.
The episode left the child so severely brain-damaged that the child must relearn how to walk and talk, the lawsuit says. The dentist, Dr. Dustin M. Davis, the anesthesiologist, Lane D. Robinson, and Sunnyside Dentistry for Children, the office where they worked, are named as defendants…