TPKC1 - Choose your own Ending! Clinical Scenarios for the Modern Dental Practitioner

This course focuses on real-world management of clinical scenarios that often present in the dental office — with or without sedation care. This course utilizes both instructor lecturing, panel discussion and a group interactive, “choose-your-own-ending” style of instruction/learning. Participants are encouraged to “stump the chump” by bringing their own clinical scenarios to the course to see how the presenters would manage them. Simulation manikins and equipment may be utilized to demonstrate. Discussion will cover the management of medical emergencies, the sedation spectrum and routes of administration, and modernized sedation techniques (inhalation, intravenous, oral and others). Particular focus will be 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); WPKC2: “Skills for Pain and Anxiety Management and Medical Emergencies” (participation course); and TLKC2: “Pain Anxiety Management—Sedation Spectrum and Monitoring” (lecture course).

This course is 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.