Light Sedation: N2O and Oral Sedatives Course (Oct, 2023)

Light Sedation: N2O and Oral Sedatives Course is organized by DOCS Education and will be held from Oct 06 - 07, 2023.

Course Description:
This comprehensive, 2-day N2O and oral sedation course for dentists will maximize patient comfort and increase practice productivity.

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.

When you sign up for the 2-day Single-dose Sedation and N2O course, you’ll gain the following benefits:
• Expand your toolbox: Understand how to combine nitrous oxide with one of five different oral sedatives to treat a wider range of adult patients

• Train with experts: Receive instruction from highly-respected dentists, Dr. Anthony Feck and Dr. Carol Wilson

• Prepare your staff: In most dental offices, team members play an essential role by readying the equipment—including masks and tubing—prior to the dentist's administration of nitrous oxide and sedation. It’s imperative that they be knowledgeable about the process to better serve the patient and the dentist. DOCS Education considers the sedation dental team a vital part of good patient care and urges every dentist to include at least one staff member in the course. Bringing team members with you allows us to train them in N2O and light oral sedation so you won’t have to when you return to your practice.

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

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

Course Objectives:
• Follow the ADA-recommended guidelines for minimal sedation.

• Practice hands-on techniques of 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.