Theory of Medical Emergencies in the Primary Care Dental Setting. (OX080917 pm)

Registration/Tea & Coffee is 11.45 to 12.15 with the educational programme starting at 12.15. There is a break for refreshments mid afternoon (incl. in course cost) and the course is due to finish at 16.00.

Please inform course Tutor at least a week prior to course if you have any dietary requirements amanda.evans@.hee.nhs.uk

The ‘Terence Mortimer Post Graduate Centre’, Horton General Hospital can be accessed from its entrance from the Oxford Road, Banbury. Parking is available in the main hospital (the car park directly outside the Post Grad Centre is for staff/permit holders only), hospital parking charges apply.  A map and details of travel to the hospital site can be viewed by following http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/hospitals/horton/find-us/default.aspx

Recommended to all

The aim of this course is to develop the learner's ability to recognise, assess and manage medical emergencies - adults and paediatrics - in the primary care dental Setting.

1. To provide training in how to perform an urgent care assessment of an ill patient.

2. To outline the processes and procedures to recognise, manage and where required provide, basic and immediate life support for medical emergencies.

3. To outline the emergency drugs and equipment that should be held by dental surgeries.

4. To explain the team approach to medical emergencies.

1. Identify medical emergencies which are beyond own scope of management, so as refer with an appropriate degree of urgency when necessary.

2. Recognise, manage and provide basic  and immediate life support for medical emergencies in line with UK Resuscitation Council guidelines.

3. Identify, prescribe and administer - where appropriate - emergency drugs correctly.

4. Facilitate a team approach to medical emergencies so as to deal promptly with uncommon but potentially tragic events.