IV Sedation Training for Dentists (Mar 06 - 09, 2024)

IV Sedation Training for Dentists is organized by DOCS Education and will be held from Mar 06 - 09, 2024 at Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America.

Description:
By integrating IV sedation dentistry into your practice, you will elevate your skill and confidence level as well as increase treatment efficiency. By choosing DOCS, you’ll prioritize quality.

During this course, you will:

• Receive extensive support from sign-up to sedation permit and beyond

• Learn how to gain IV access and provide sedation to 20+ patients

• Combine home study with hands-on, in-person training over one 4-day clinical session

• Learn why IV conscious sedation dentistry can be a game-changer in your practice.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of a competency course in enteral sedation, the dentist must be able to:

• Incorporate methodologies to safely provide both enteral (oral) and parenteral (IV) minimal and moderate sedation in an outpatient setting.

• Expand your confidence and ability to treat medically complex patients safely, and realizing the synergies that arise—for both doctor and patient—when you strategically combine safe oral and IV sedation.

• Understand the ADA guidelines for Teaching Pain Control and Sedation to Dentists and Dental Students (Adopted by the ADA House of Delegates in Oct. 2016).

• Fulfill the ADA-recommended advanced airway management and opioid prescription training, and qualify for ACLS certification.

• Understand the advantages and disadvantages of minimal and moderate sedation and the sedation spectrum.

• Learn prevention, recognition, and management of complications from venipuncture and other parenteral techniques; oral sedation and other enteral techniques; and minimal and moderate sedation with particular attention to airway maintenance and support of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems.

• Review abuse potential, occupational hazards, and other detrimental effects of the agents utilized to achieve minimal and moderate sedation.

• Techniques of intravenous access, intramuscular injection, and other parenteral techniques through demonstration.

• Study Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacotherapeutics of sedation medications used in dentistry for administration, including the precautions, indications, contraindications, and adverse reactions associated with them.

• Understand complications and potential missteps associated with techniques of minimal and moderate sedation.

• Learn protocols for management of most commonly encountered emergencies in the dental office, and the drugs and equipment required for prevention and management; demonstrate proficiency.

• Study historical, philosophical, and psychological aspects of anxiety and pain control, mechanisms of orofacial pain and analgesia.

• Understand patient evaluation, assessment, selection, monitoring and recordkeeping through a detailed review of medical history taking, physical diagnosis, and psychological considerations.

• Description of the sedation anesthesia continuum with special emphasis on the distinction between the conscious and the unconscious state.

• Pharmacology of local anesthetics and agents used in IV Sedation, including drug interactions and contraindications.

• Indications and contraindications for use of IV Sedation.

• Review of dental procedures possible under IV Sedation.

• Patient monitoring using observation and monitoring equipment with particular attention to vital signs and reflexes related to consciousness.

• Safely and effectively administer the selected drug(s) to dental patients in a clinical setting.

Curriculum Topics:

• The sedation

spectrum

• Mechanisms of orofacial pain and analgesia

• Psychological aspects of pain and anxiety

• Principles of pharmacology

• Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacotherapeutics of conscious sedation medications used in dentistry

• Drug interactions

• Patient assessment

• Advanced airway maintenance & management

• Monitoring

• IV sedation protocol

• Venipuncture

• Record-keeping

• Sedation blunders

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

, including ACLS certification