CE1172

Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office: A Simulation Course

Bart Johnson, DDS, MS

Course Description

Medical emergencies occur fairly commonly in the dental office. This course is designed give you both the didactic foundation you need to manage the emergency and teach you and your staff how to handle the medications and equipment found in the kit in an “almost for real” simulated scenario.

• This will be a really fun course – hands on! Everyone participates!
• Staff are both welcome and encouraged… they need this too!
• Your team will be guided, with emergency kits provided, through several real-to-life simulated emergencies. You will position the patient, make decisions, institute basic interventions, and then administer medications and rescue therapies if appropriate… in real time, with the clock running.
• After each simulation, we will discuss what went right, what went wrong, how things were managed, why certain interventions were appropriate, and what the outcomes might have been had this been a real emergency.
• Don’t be shy… by the end of the day, you and your staff will be much more confident of your ability to handle an emergency should one happen!
• Feel free to bring your office emergency equipment if you would like it evaluated.

Dr. Johnson has been using this simulation technique successfully for many years. Simulation is very different from actually doing it quickly, efficiently, correctly, and with organized team effort. These exercises make for a fun and very educational day.

Course Objectives

As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:

• Recognize and appropriately render initial intervention (“universal treatment”) for all acute medical emergencies.
• Understand the pathophysiology of the most commonly seen medical emergencies, including:
  • Allergy, drug overdose, angina, MI/cardiac arrest, asthma, bleeding, stroke, hypo/hyperglycemia, hypo/hypertension, hyperventilation, orthostatic hypotension, seizures, syncope, and vomiting.
• Know basic interventions that can be performed for these emergent situations.
• Assemble an appropriate medical emergency kit for the dental office.
• Correctly use the various items found in the medical emergency kit.
• Competently participate in mock emergency drills in your dental office.

Instructor

BART JOHNSON received his DDS from UCLA in 1985, a GPR Certificate in 1986, and an MS in Oral Biology in 1989. He came to Seattle in 1991 and was the Director of the UW GPR and tenured Associate Professor from 1991 to 2007. In January of 2008, he opened Seattle Special Care Dentistry (SSCD) with his business partner, Dr. Amy Winston. SSCD is a private practice dedicated to the care of medically/ physically/ emotionally and mentally compromised patients of all varieties. In 2009, Drs. Johnson and Winston started a new GPR program with Swedish Medical Center. It is fully CODA accredited and trains three residents per year. Dr. Johnson is the Director of this program. In his spare time he teaches courses in internal medicine, sedation, medical emergencies, physical diagnosis, pharmacology, BLS and ACLS. Locally he is active on the Executive Council and the Access-to-Care Committee of the Seattle-King County Dental Society, and is the co-director of the Northwest Kidney Center Charity Care project.

Bart loves playing with his family, stomping rain puddles, biking, backpacking, kayaking, snowshoeing, Harry Potter, and almost anything certifiably geeky.

ADA CERP

The University of Washington is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.
ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

ACDE

The University of Washington is a member of the Association for Continuing Dental Education.

University of Washington designates this activity for 7 continuing education credits.