Dental Assistant Sedation Course: Your Role in the Safe Sedation of Children

Course Details

• Summary

  This one-and-a-half day course is specially designed for the pediatric dental assistant to enhance their knowledge and understanding of sedation emergencies and other emergent medical conditions in the office.  An introduction to oral sedatives and using nitrous oxide/oxygen sedation will be included.  Participants will learn how to organize and prepare the office for an organized response to a medical emergency and how to assist in the management of medical and sedation emergencies.

  On Saturday morning, there is a four hour workshop that allows hands-on training for the dental assistant.  Participants will rotate through the multiple stations to include airway management; airway equipment; papoose board and monitor placement.

• Speakers and Schedule

  Speakers
  

  Course Chair & Speaker: Bobby Thikkurissy, D.D.S., M.S.
  Speaker: Alan Milnes, D.D.S., Ph.D.
  Speaker: Cara Riley, D.M.D.
  Speaker: Stephen Wilson, D.M.D., M.A., Ph.D.

  Schedule

  Friday

  7:30-8:15 AM - Registration and Continental Breakfast
  8:15-9:15 AM - The Spectrum of Pain and Anxiety in Dentistry

  • The Pediatric Patient
  • Anatomical and physiological considerations
  • Sedation ContinuumThikkurissy

  9:15-10 AM - Oral Sedatives , Thikkurissy
  10-10:15 AM - Break, AB Foyer
  10:15-11 AM - Local Anesthesia, Milnes
  11-11:30 AM - Monitoring and Record Keeping, Thikkurissy
  11:30 AM-12 PM - Nitrous Oxide-Oxygen, Thikkurissy 
  12-1 PM - Lunch
  1-2 PM - Medical History and Review of Systems, Riley
  2-3 PM - Diagnosis and Management of Sedative Complications, Riley
  3-3:15 PM - Break 
  3:15-4:15 PM - Preparing the Office and Team Approach, Thikkurissy
  4:15 -4:30 PM - Protective Stabilization, Wilson
  4:30-4:45 PM - The AAP/AAPD Guidelines
  4:45-5:30 PM - Film Clips & Final Questions, Thikkurissy
  5:30-5:45 PM - Wrap up, Thikkurissy

  Saturday
  7:30-8 AM - Continental breakfast, FGH Foyer
  8-8:15 AM - Break and convene in breakouts
  8:15-10:45 AM - Group Teaching Stations: Rotate every 45 minutes

  • Station I: Monitoring, Thikkurissy
  • Station II: Papoose Board/Restraints, Wilson
  • Station III: Basic Airway Techniques, Milnes

• Hotel and Travel

  The Whitley Hotel, Atlanta Buckhead
  3434 Peachtree Road NE
  Atlanta, GA 30326

  Group Rate: $209 plus tax

  Click here to book your room or call 1-888-236-2427 and mention AAPD Safe & Effective Sedation for the group rate.

• Registration

  Deadline for early registration is Sept. 11, 2019. Space is limited, with registrations being accepted on a space-available basis. Please note that space may fill up prior to the early cut-off date. After Sept. 11, 2019, please contact the Meetings Department at the AAPD headquarters office at (312) 337-2169 to verify availability of onsite and faxed registration.
  
  Registration Fees

  	By Sept. 11, 2019	After Sept. 11, 2019
  Assistants	$440	$540

   

  Dental Assistant and Office Staff Registration

  Fax completed Registration Form to number below

  Cancellation
  Full refunds for registration minus a $150 cancellation fee will be given only if written notice of cancellation is received 30 days prior to the course. For one-day courses, the cancellation fee will be $75 with the same rules applying. A 50 percent refund will be given if written notice is received up to two weeks prior to the course. No refunds will be given within one week prior to the course. No refunds will be given for no-shows.
  
  Notice of cancellation can be made online or in writing and sent as follows:
  
  Mail: AAPD Meetings Department
  211 East Chicago Ave, Ste. 1600
  Chicago, IL 60611
  
  Fax: (312) 337-6329
  
  E-mail: coliva@aapd.org
  
  The meeting sponsors are not responsible for travel expenses or penalties under any circumstances.
  
  For further information, please contact the AAPD Meetings Department at (312) 337-2169.