Basic Airway Management Course for Dentists: Required Course for Conscious Sedation Permit
About This Event
Any dentist performing sedation or providing care to a sedated patient should be able to provide airway management and ventilation for a patient encountering respiratory distress. The course covers basic airway assessment via history and physical, relevant anatomy and physiology, effects of sedative drugs on respiration, and equipment. Participants will learn and practice motor skills to relieve obstruction, insert airway adjuncts (nasal and oropharyngeal airways), perform mask ventilation, and place/maintain advanced airways (LMA, ETT) using simulation under supervision. Course includes post-course evaluation of airway skills. Agenda includes didactic medical emergencies (2 contact hours), didactic airway management (1 contact hour), and hands-on airway management (1 contact hour).
Learning Objectives
- Describe basic airway anatomy
- Review basic pulmonary physiology and understand the effects of sedation on respiration
- Review basic airway exam
- Identify patients with an abnormal pre-sedation airway evaluation and how this affects sedation risk
- Understand the role of monitoring in respiratory surveillance including observation, auscultation, pulse oximetry and end-tidal CO2 monitoring
- Describe clinical situations in which oxygen, bag-valve-mask ventilation or intubation may be needed, and review airway-related emergency situations including laryngospasm, foreign-body obstruction, emesis and aspiration, and bronchospasm
- Demonstrate understanding of indications for airway equipment and describe sizing and placement for oxygen, stethoscope, bag-valve-mask, oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal airways, LMA, ETT, bougie, stylet, laryngoscope, glidescope, Yankauer suction
- Review basic techniques of ventilation using simulated experiences
- Review basic techniques of intubation using simulated experiences with LMA, ETT
- Demonstrate confirming tube placement and ventilation using chest rise and EtCO2
- Teamwork in emergency response