‘Ask the Experts’: California’s Fight Over Pediatric Dental Anesthesia Care With Rita Agarwal, MD

In this episode of “Ask the Experts,” Rita Agarwal, MD, joins the show to discuss the efforts in California to pass legislation to change anesthesia delivery in pediatric dental anesthesia cases. Agrawal has played an important role in advising and promoting the need for improved practices in the state, especially when it comes to the sole-operator model of anesthesia delivery.

Agarwal is a clinical professor of anesthesiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, in California. She is also the past president of the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine. She has been working on the efforts to pass legislation on dental anesthesia delivery since 2015.

“Ask the Experts” is a conversation podcast series from the “Anesthesiology News Presents” channel. It features up close and personal Q&A interviews with leading experts in the field of anesthesiology on topics such as difficult airways and women in medicine.