Update:

The recording for Management of Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office will be available when you select the combined option.

Course Description:

This course is designed to train dentists in minimal and moderate sedation. The course focuses on the safe and effective practices on the management of anxious dental patients, utilizing oral sedatives and nitrous oxide, or a combination of the two. We will review the pharmacology of common oral sedatives, as well as nitrous oxide. Equipment used for monitoring patients under sedation will be discussed. We will also review common medical emergencies as they relate to sedation, and how to manage them.

Learning Objectives :

• Recognize the differences between the different levels of sedation

• Appreciate that sedation and anaesthesia is a continuum

• Appreciate the RCDSO Standard of Practice in the “Use of Sedation and General Anesthesia in the Dental Office.”

• Be familiar with patient monitoring and patient assessment for minimal and moderate sedation

• Be familiar with sedative medications used in dentistry, in particular nitrous oxide and benzodiazepines

• Understand the technique for providing sedation, using oral sedatives and nitrous oxide

• Briefly review parenteral sedatives in dentistry

• Have an understanding of the management of common sedation emergencies in the dental office

By completing this course and obtaining the certificate, attendees are allowed to apply for RCDSO authorization for oral and nitrous oxide moderate sedation.