WPKC2 - Skills for Pain and Anxiety Management and Medical Emergencies

This course focuses on the skills needed to provide clinical sedation care and pitfalls to avoid. Simulation manikins and equipment will be utilized to instruct participants in starting intravenous and intraosseous access lines as well as related skills. Discussion will also cover the management of medical emergencies, the sedation spectrum and routes of administration, and modernized sedation techniques (inhalation, intravenous, oral and others). Particular focus is placed on safety, efficiency, and new developments in sedation techniques, technology and pharmacology in the dental office.

This participation course can be taken as a stand-alone course or as part of the four-part lecture/participation series. The three remaining courses are: WLKC1: “Pain Anxiety Management: History and Sedation Techniques” (lecture course); “TPKC1: Choose Your Own Ending! Clinical Scenarios for the Modern Dental Practitioner” (participation course); and “TLKC2: Pain Anxiety Management—Sedation Spectrum and Monitoring” (lecture course).

This course is as part of the certificate program offered by the American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists’ (ASDA’s) Institute for the Management of Pain and Anxiety (IMPA). All hours may be applied toward IMPA IV or oral sedation certification didactic hours. Tuition paid for this course will be applied as a credit toward IMPA moderate IV or oral certification course work.