UT Health San Antonio Continuing Dental Education UT Health San Antonio Continuing Dental Education

Nitrous Oxide Conscious Sedation

Course overview

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Complete all reading assignments and submit quiz answers via Internet at the completion of each chapter. 100% passing is required to move from one chapter to the next. The quizzes will be graded and returned to you instantaneously

Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive an electronic verification for 9 hours of didactic continuing dental education. Print this document and save the verification for your records.

Feel free to preview five(5) portions of the course material, designated below in the Table of Contents.

You are invited to participate in Nitrous Oxide, (Oxygen) Conscious Sedation, an online course presented by the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Continuing Dental Education. Via the Internet/World Wide Web (WWW), you may review this material in your office or home at your leisure; and receive continuing education credit at the same time!

Also, if you wish to be certified in Nitrous Oxide Administration following completion of this portion of the course, you may sign up to participate in the clinical/hands-on portion of the certification at our dental school for a fee in the amount of US $312.00. If you wish to apply for the clinical/hands-on portion (after you've completed the didactic portion) that leads to certification, CLICK HERE

Participation in the didactic portion of the course requires that you:

Introduction
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Biobehavior Aspects of Anxiety
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Quiz I
History and Safety
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Quiz II
Purpose, Objectives, Advantages, and Disadvantages of Nitrous Oxide
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Quiz III
Technique for Administering Nitrous Oxide Conscious Sedation
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Quiz IV
Equipment
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Quiz V
Physiology and Pharmacology of Nitrous Oxide
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Quiz VI
The Effects of Nitrous Oxide Concentration
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Quiz VII
Planes of Analgesia Related to Stages
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Quiz VIII
Patient Monitoring
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Quiz IX
Indications and Contraindications for the Use of Nitrous Oxide
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Quiz X
Complications that May Be Encountered With Nitrous Oxide Conscious Sedation
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Quiz XI
Nitrous Oxide/Oxygen Sedation in Pediatric Dentistry
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Quiz XII
Health Hazards and Protection from Exposure to Nitrous Oxide
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Quiz XIII
Nitrous Oxide and the Medically Compromised Patient
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Quiz XIV
The Abuse and Social Use of Nitrous Oxide
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Quiz XV
Hypnosis and Nitrous Oxide Conscious Sedation
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Quiz XVI

Presenter(s)

Ernest E. Valdez, D.D.S.
- DR. ERNEST VALDEZ is a native of San Antonio, Texas. He earned his Bachelors of Science in Biology from St. Mary’s University and his Doctorate of Dental Surgery from the prestigious University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA).
  
  Upon completion of dental school in 1993, Dr. Valdez entered community health as a staff dentist at Las Clinical Del Norte, a community health center in rural North Central New Mexico, where he also was active as a volunteer firefighter and first-responder for the community of Ojo Caliente. Dr. Valdez eventually moved to Harlingen, Texas in the Lower Rio Grande Valley to serve as the dental director of a community health center, Su Clinica Familiar.
  
  In 1999, Dr. Valdez returned to the UTHSCSA completing a two-year General Practice Residency with intensive training in hospital-based dentistry, oral surgical techniques, implant dentistry, advanced dental techniques, and intravenous sedation. In 2001, Dr. Valdez entered private practice as an associate dentist in a dental practice in north San Antonio before being invited to apply for a faculty position at the UTHSCSA as a general dentist in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS). He held a full-time position as an Assistant Clinical Professor for 11 years with the Department of OMS providing clinical instruction with direct patient contact at both the UTHSCSA and The University Health System – University Hospital. Here he presented lectures on various OMS and sedation topics to dental students, OMS residents, and general dentists, while treating his private patients at UTHSCSA Faculty Practice Clinic, and holding various committee and board appointments at the UTHSCSA.
  
  In 2014, Dr. Valdez decided to leave the University and return to private practice as an associate general dentist providing sedation, oral surgical, and general dental services. Dr. Valdez continues to lecture for the UTHSCSA presenting continuing dental education courses in Nitrous Oxide Sedation, Enteral Sedation, and Medical Emergency Prevention and Management in the Dental Office as well as offers an online sedation course.
  
  During his spare time, Dr. Valdez enjoys community service, hiking, and playing guitar.
  
  Dr. Valdez’s Associations and Affiliations:
  - American Dental Society of Anesthesiology
  - Special Care Dentistry Organization
  - American Association of Hospital Dentists
  - The International Association of Student Clinicians
  - Founding member of the Lone Star Dental Sedation Study Club. You may contact this author at valdeze@uthscsa.edu

Tuition

Course fee: $247.50

Credit

Hours: 9.00

Original Date: 09/01/2012 | Review Date: 08/31/2018 | Expiration Date: 08/31/2021

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