Light Sedation: N2O and Oral Sedatives Course (May 16 - 17, 2025)

Light Sedation: N2O and Oral Sedatives Course is organized by DOCS Education and will be held from May 16 - 17, 2025.

Course Description:
Learn the fundamentals of providing safe and comfortable dental care using a combination of light oral sedation protocols. Nitrous oxide is among the oldest and safest anesthetics in dentistry, offering straightforward treatment for anxious patients of various ages and medical conditions. By partnering this approach with one of five different medications, you’ll be able to offer a simple and effective analgesic and anxiolytic solution that will provide pain relief and ease your patients’ anxiety at the same time.

Course Objectives:

• Follow the ADA-recommended guidelines for minimal sedation.
• Practice hands-on techniques of 2 administration, both fundamental and advanced.
• Cover guidelines for patient monitoring and special equipment.
• Understand the proven and safe light sedation protocols.
• Understand airway management, including signs of an impending emergency.
• Review prescribing, dispensing, and dosing oral sedatives, and regulatory issues.
• Learn to combine enteral/inhalation sedation.
• Learn a dental response to COVID
  
  Course Day One:
• Science of nitrous oxide and other inhalation anesthetics
• Effects upon body systems, including respiratory
• Cover guidelines for patient monitoring and special equipment
• Techniques of N2O administration, both fundamental and advanced
• Mitigating biohazards for patients and staff
• Learn to minimize nitrous exposure in your office
• Regulatory issues

    Course Day Two: Adult single-dose sedation focused:

• Single-dose protocols for oral sedation
• Science of oral sedatives, alone and partnered with nitrous oxide
• Clinically combining enteral sedation and inhaled anesthetics
• Drugs: prescribing, dispensing, dosages, and safety ranges
• Proper sedation candidate selection
• Regulatory issues
• Learn a dental response to COVID