Emergency Medicine for Every Dental Practitioner and Their Team (Part 1 of 2)

A typical day in the dental office can turn into your worst nightmare if you haven’t prepared a system of response to care for a patient, parent, or staff member who becomes acutely unwell. In Part 1, you will learn to approach each situation like an emergency physician, paramedic, or anesthesiologist would. You will learn the Systematic Approach to patient assessment and management in the dental setting, which will help you know how to recognize a patient requiring urgent or emergent care and initiate evaluation and management. Dr. Manton will introduce you to current best practices established by the American Heart Association while addressing updates for some of the most common medical urgency and emergency scenarios that occur in the dental setting. This talk will also review systems of care, the chain of survival, high-performance team dynamics, resuscitation science, and practical steps to preparing your office team to become prepare to function as an emergency response team.