Knowledge of drugs and dosages administered to the patient is paramount in order to ascertain aggregated conditions which could possibly be present urological, renal or cardiac congenital anomalies, mental retardation, growth delays, deafness or hypometabolism signs and thus avoid complications in the dental office such as hypothyroid coma which consists of hypothermia, bradycardia, hypotension or convulsions. For the aforementioned reasons, the patients' mothers were interrogated onmedical treatment administered to their offspring.
La importancia de conocer los medicamentos y dosis que se le administran al paciente está encaminada a conocer las patologías agregadas que pudieran llegar a presentar anomalías congénitas cardiacas, renales o urológicas, retraso mental, retraso en el crecimiento, sordera o síntomas de hipometabolismo y evitar complicaciones durante la consulta, como el coma hipotiroideo, que consiste en hipotermia, bradicardia, hipotensión y convulsiones; es por ello que se interrogó a las madres sobre el tratamiento médico.