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OVERVIEW
According to a published study, a dentist and staff, on average,
will manage a medical emergency once every 1.4 years*. The same
study reports that cardiac arrest in a dental office may occur once
every 130 years*. It appears that medical emergencies occur infrequently
in the dental office. It is for this very reason that it is easy
for dentists and staff to forget simple medical emergency prevention
and management techniques and systems. In a productive dental practice,
medical emergency equipment may become dusty, emergency medications
may expire, portable oxygen tanks become empty, emergency management
systems are forgotten. Do you have enough equipment or too much
equipment to manage medical emergencies in your dental office? What
is the anticipated arrival time of EMS to your office? Do you AND
your staff know how to manage the most common medical emergencies
that can occur in your dental office?
OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Evaluate their medical emergency equipment, as well as,
the office for efficiency of management of medical emergencies by
bringing a schematic of the floor plan of their dental office, a
list and photos of their medical equipment of their office.
• Determine the response time of the emergency medical services
to a medical emergency in their dental office.
• Design a “Medical Emergency Management Plan”
for the dental office.
• Learn to recognize and manage the ten most common medical
emergencies, as well as, acute myocardial infarction and cardiac
arrest in the dental office.
• Learn medical emergency preventive measures.
PRESENTER
ERNEST E. VALDEZ, D.D.S., earned his DDS from The University
of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 1993. He is an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio, Dental School.
TIME
Check-in & Breakfast: D.S. Cafeteria, 8:00 AM Program: Friday,
9:00 AM–5:00 PM
LOCATION
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Dental
School
TUITION
Dentist: $199.50
Allied Dental Personnel: $159.50
CREDIT (Course Code: 124094A)
AGD Code: 142 Hours: 7
IMPORTANT COURSE INFORMATION
Participants
should bring the following: (1) simple schematics of your
office floor plan (hand drawn or digitized is acceptable);
(2) the response time of the medical emergency services in
your area; (3) photos and a list of your medical emergency
equipment, in their CURRENT, AS-IS LOCATION AND STATUS.
The course requirements are to aid in the evaluation of the
medical emergency equipment and office efficiency in the management
of a medical emergency. *From Fast, TB et al. JADA 112:499,
1984; Malamed, SF, JADA 124 4, 1993
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