Satisfies the 15-hour airway requirement for all Missouri Dental Board anesthesia/sedation permitted dentists.

 A Missouri Dental Board approved course.

Ø  15-hours of ADA/CERP continuing education credits which includes:

Ø   12 hours of ONLINE didactic learning modules (with online exams).

Ø   3 hours of LIVE hands-on personalized airway management training.

Ø  Hands-On airway training will be available at convenient locations throughout Missouri.

 Easy to understand course.

Tuition $1,198.00 for 15 ADA/CERP CEUs.

Product Details:

For Dentists, Dental Anesthesiologists, Dental Hygienists & Dental Assistants.

Students will explore the concepts necessary to identify and maintain a patient’s airway. This informative series of lectures is newly approved by the Missouri Board of Dentistry and satisfies the renewal requirements for:

20 CSR 2110-4.020 Moderate Sedation; 20 CSR 2110-4.040 Deep Sedation/General

Anesthesia: Completion during the past five (5) years of a minimum of fifteen (15) hours of other board-approved continuing education

pertaining to airway management in sedated patients.

Created in Missouri and Available for Sedation Dentists and their team from all States. 

Please note that this course requires at least 15 hours of personal study and the Live hands-on Airway training per Missouri State Dental Board requirements.

Sedation Consult, LLC & The Academy of Continued Education designate this activity for 15 ADA/CERP continuing education credits.

Course Summary

• Sponsored by Sedation Consult, LLC.
• Created and presented by Columbia, Missouri Dentist Allan Schwartz, DDS, CRNA.
• 12-hours of lectures with 75-question required exam. Must attain a score of 75% to pass.
• Refund Policy: 
• All sales are final. If unable to attend a registered course, credit will be applied toward another one of our other courses.

Learning Objectives

A. Essentials of the Airway

1. Discuss a comprehensive review of the anatomy of the airway
2. Head and Neck Considerations
3. Obtaining and Maintaining the Airway

B. Essentials of Laryngospasm Concepts

1. Introduction

2. The very basic anatomy of pertinent structures encompassing laryngospasm.
3. Laryngospasm

4. Susceptible patients
5. The treatment of laryngospasm

6. The prevention of laryngospasm

7. Summary/Conclusions

C. Dental Office Medical Emergencies

1.     Learn the prevalence of several major anesthesia medical emergencies possible in the dental office.

2.     Learn the importance of familiarity with common medical emergencies along with periodic drilling and review with your staff. State Dental Practice Acts may require this.

3.     Review 12 of the most common medical emergencies possible for a patient undergoing Anesthesia in the dental office.

4.     Review some suggested treatment protocols for various anesthesia medical emergencies.

5.     Review the pharmacology for treatment of the various anesthesia medical emergencies.

6.     Review suggested dosages for the pharmacological agents used to treat various anesthesia medical emergencies.

D. Hand-on Live Personalized Airway Management Training

☐ Nasal cannula

☐ Simple facemask

☐ Non-rebreathing facemask

☐ Oral (Guedel) airway

☐ Nasopharyngeal airway

☐ Laryngeal mask airway (LMA); 

☐ King airway

☐ Oral endotracheal tube (OETT) - sizing and types of adults and children’s

      endotracheal tubes:

Adults: Endotracheal Tube – Women 7.0; Men 8.0                    

      Infants:  AGE + 16    or    Children: Size of the Child’s Little Finger

                                 4

☐ Oral Endotracheal Tube with stylette

☐ Eschmann stylette 

☐ Laryngoscope - Macintosh, Miller, Phillips blades

☐ Video Laryngoscope

☐ Magill Forceps

☐ Bag-valve-mask use for breathing; Bag-Valve-Mask for Laryngospasm

☐ OroGastric tube

☐ Larson’s Maneuver

Airway Positioning:

☐ Head tilt        ☐ Chin lift        ☐ Turn off midline         ☐ Jaw thrust

☐ Sniffing position                    ☐ Neck pillow                 ☐ Shoulder bolster

Airway Protection:

☐ 4 x 4 Gauze throat pack

Airway Emergency Scenarios:

☐ Cough    ☐ Laryngospasm    ☐ Airway obstruction    ☐ Foreign body   

☐ Cannot ventilate/cannot intubate     ☐ Emergency cricothyroidotomy

☐ Asthma/bronchospasm    ☐ Respiratory depression

Emergency Scenarios:

☐ General emergency response       ☐ Hypotension/Hypertension      

☐ Cardiopulmonary arrest                ☐ Allergic reaction to drugs       

☐ Angina pectoris possible myocardial infarction

☐ Emesis/aspiration of vomitus       ☐ Convulsions and seizures  

☐ Over-sedation                                ☐ Hypoglycemia