How to Work Safely and Effectively Under IV Sedation
Whether you work with a dental sedationist, a GP anesthetist or a specialist anesthetist, this course will equip you to be better prepared and feel confident to be able to work with your sedationist to achieve high quality work with maximum safety and minimum stress.
Description
Unfortunately, most of us never were really taught how to work with our patients under any form of sedation. This has led many clinicians to dread providing or even offering IV sedation as an option to their patients. Understanding what is involved with sedation and how best to work with it, is mutually beneficial to both the clinician and especially the patients. From a Clinical perspective, you can reduce or eliminate the patient centric factors that make dentistry challenging and just focus of the technical aspects that allow you to provide high quality dental care in a safe and efficient manner.
Delegates with gain the knowledge to be able to confidently manage their patient’s safety whilst under sedation and also learn techniques and tips to minimize your clinical time and stress.
There will be a combined practical and lecture content that will suit clinicians of all levels of experience.
Course topics
Patient selection, assessment and preparation for sedation
● Medical conditions significant for sedation
●Clinician, staff and practice preparation
● Sedation techniques and how to work with them
● Clinical strategies for the different dental disciplines
● LA review
●Hands on Management of sedation emergencies and Clinical resource management
Learning objectives
To effectively identify and prepare the patient and staff foe dental sedation
●To understand the differences in sedation techniques and how to best work with them to achieve your goals
●To develop clinically useful strategies to make treatment under sedation more efficient and safer
● To have an understanding and practice your role in a medical emergency with a sedated patient
Presenters
Dr Vivian Mascarenhas is a general dentist and an AHPRA endorsed dental sedationist. He graduated from the University of Western Australia in 2003, and subsequently went on to complete his science degree with double majors in microbiology and pathology and was a dual honors candidate in both disciplines. He proceeded to work in the public sector both in WA and the in the NT until 2007. During this time, he worked in remote aboriginal communities as well as in the NT hospital system, where he worked extensively under GA.
Returning to Perth in 2008 Dr Viv has worked in private practice for the last 15 years. During the last 12 years, he has worked exclusively in a sedation-based practice in Subiaco undertaking all aspects of dentistry (except orthodontics) under sedation.
Dr Viv received his post graduate qualification in sedation from the University of Sydney in 2015. Up until 2021 he worked as a clinician and sedationist but now exclusively provides mobile sedation services to some 40 practices (both specialist and general) across the Perth metro region.