Pediatric Sedation Dentistry (Aug, 2017)

Pediatric Sedation Dentistry is organized by DOCS Education and would be held during Aug 18 - 20, 2017 at Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America. The targeted audience for this medical event is basically for dentists. This CME Conference has been approved with a maximum of 25 hours of CE.

In this 3-day course you will develop a foundational skill set that will allow you to safely and confidently use sedation on pediatric patients. You will learn how to determine which child and parent are good candidates for pediatric oral sedation; pediatric anatomy, physiology and physical evaluation; what equipment, supplies and management techniques are necessary to start sedation procedures in your office.

Day One :
It is important to make clear what pediatric oral conscious sedation is and what it isn't. Pharmacology will be discussed at length for the purpose of understanding the science behind the skills.
• Review of drug regimens
• Principles of pharmacology for sedation medications
• Anatomical and physiological considerations
• The complicated patient
• Metabolism of drugs and drug-drug interaction
• Pediatric emergencies

Day Two :
These six scenarios will be programmed into the high fidelity human simulators that have direct application for pediatric dentists who sedate children in their office. These include preparation for scenarios including:
• Asthma : A patient may experience an attack while under sedation, thus causing an airway emergency
• Excess of local anesthetic : A patient could experience an overdose (toxicity) of local anesthesia causing a biphasic (excitation then depression) reaction
• Allergic reaction : This could result in first a cutaneous reaction progressing to anaphylaxis with airway emergency
• Sinus Tachycardia (ST) or Supra Ventricular Tachycardia (SVT) : Possibly from elevated temp, stress, etc. during sedation requiring initial vagal stimulation
• Foreign body introduction : Gauze, tooth, crown, bur, etc. in oropharyngeal area during sedation causing an airway emergency
• Diabetes : Patient could experience an episode of hypoglycemia during sedation

Day Three :
• Treatment planning considerations
• Case selection
• Drug selection and dosage
• Drug administration
• Local anesthesia
• Nitrous oxide/oxygen sedation.