Unsafe medication practices found at Fort Worth dental office where child died

A search of the dental office where a child died this past April revealed an office that didn't follow mandatory safety practices.Detectives who searched Cuddle Kids Dental Care in Fort Worth found syringes with varying levels of leftover medication located in a box in the office.48-year-old Chrishelle Hemphill, who was arrested this week after 4-year-old Aithana Arriaga died at the office in April, told investigators the office would reuse medication from a previous dose if the entire medication wasn't used.Hemphill's dental license was temporarily suspended on July 15, the day of her arrest, by the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners.The suspension order states chloral hydrate, a discontinued sedative that has no specific reversal agent, was administered to Arriaga.Child death at dentist's officeInvestigators determined Hemphill was responsible for the April death of 4-year-old Aithana Arriaga at Cuddle Kids Dental in Fort Worth.An arrest affidavit states Arriaga did not wake up fo
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