Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office: A Simulation Course
with Bart Johnson, DDS, MS
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Medical emergencies do occur in the dental office. This course is designed give you the didactic foundation and clinical skill you need to manage the emergency competently, and teach you and your staff how to handle the medications and equipment found in the kit in an "almost-for-real" simulated scenario.
• This will be a really fun course - hands on!
• Please bring your staff … they need this as much as you do!
• After the morning didactic presentation, your team will be guided, with emergency kits provided, through several real-to-life simulated emergencies. You will position the patient, make decisions, institute universal interventions, and then administer - or not administer - medications and other rescue therapies as appropriate… in real time, with real materials and both the clock and your adrenaline running.
• After each simulation, a debriefing session will discuss what went right and wrong, how things were managed, why certain interventions were appropriate, and what the outcomes might have been had this been a real emergency.
• Don't worry about being embarrassed… this is the time to make mistakes and learn from them! By the end of the course, you and your staff will be much more confident of your ability to handle a true emergency correctly should one happen!
Dr. Johnson has been using this simulation technique very successfully for years. Managing a real emergency quickly, efficiently, correctly, and with organized team effort requires preparation. These simulations are eye-opening and make for a fun and very educational day.
Course Objectives: At the completion of the course:
• Know basic interventive measures that can be taken for dental office emergency situations.
• Assemble an appropriate and complete medical emergency kit for the dental office.
• Correctly use the various items found in the medical emergency kit.
• Competently participate in mock emergency drills in your dental office.
• Recognize and appropriately render initial intervention for all acute medical emergencies.
• Understand basic treatment of the most likely medical emergencies.
Angina
Allergic reaction, mild to severe
Adverse drug reactions/Overdose
Bleeding
Acute Myocardial Infarction/Cardiac Arrest
Asthma/Short of breath/Acute pulmonary edema
Vomiting
Cerebrovascular accident (stroke)
Seizure
Hypo/Hyperglycemia
Hyperventilation syndrome
Syncope
Orthostatic hypotension
Hypo/Hypertension
When: Saturday, January 28, 2012 Times: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Team Pricing - Each Dentist = $195, Staff 1-5 = $140 each, next 6-10 = $125 each
*Early Team Pricing: - Each Dentist = $165, Staff 1-5 = $120 each, next 6-10 = $90 each
Credit: 8 hours
Location : OHSU School of Dentistry -Lunch & Parking Included
*Early team pricing applied when registering one month prior to course begin date.
Speaker: Barton S. Johnson, DDS, MS is the Director of the General Practice Residency program at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. He is a co-owner of Seattle Special Care Dentistry, a private practice focusing on the care of medically complex patients. Bart is a Diplomate of the American Board of Special Care Dentistry, and a Fellow in the American Association of Hospital Dentists.
