CE0901: Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office: A "Do It (Almost) For Real" Simulation Course

Bart Johnson, DDS, MS

Comments from Past Participants:

• "A lot of good information to take back to the office and practice, practice, practice!"
• "Great speaker! Kept information entertaining. I liked the mock situations. Looking forward to more 'practice' with staff."
• "I thoroughly enjoyed the interactive emergency training!"

Course Description:

Medical emergency courses have historically presented the information you need to return to your office and prepare yourself, your staff, and a kit for an adverse event. This course takes the training one step further: you and your staff will learn to handle emergencies in real time, with real kits, real drugs and real scenarios!

• This will be a really fun course – hands on!
• Please bring your staff… they need this as much as you do.
• When you register, we will send you a handout detailing common emergencies and suggested ways of managing them. You and your staff will be expected to review this handout prior to the day of the course.
• On that day, your team will be guided, with emergency kits provided, through several real-to-life simulated emergencies. You will position the patient, make decisions, institute universal interventions, and then administer – or not administer – medications and other rescue therapies as appropriate… in real time, with the clock and your adrenaline running.
• After each simulation, we will have a debriefing session to discuss what went right, what went wrong, how things were managed, why certain interventions were appropriate, and what the outcomes might have been had this been a real emergency.
• Don’t worry about being embarrassed… by the end of the day, you and your staff will be much more confident of your ability to handle a true emergency should one happen!
• Feel free to bring your office emergency equipment if you would like it evaluated.

Dr. Johnson has been using this simulation technique very successfully in training his general practice residents and dental students. He began using this technique after realizing that watching a slide show is very different from actually doing it quickly, efficiently, correctly, and with organized team effort. These simulations are eye-opening and make for a fun and very educational day.

Course Objectives - As a result of attending this course, the participant should be able to:

• Recognize and appropriately render initial intervention (“universal treatment”) for all acute medical emergencies.
• Understand the physiology, pathophysiology, contributing, precipitating, and exacerbating factors of the most commonly seen medical emergencies in the dental office setting.
• Know basic interventive measures that can be taken for these emergent situations, including medications and adjunctive equipment.
• Assemble an appropriate and complete medical emergency kit for their office.
• Correctly use the various items found in the medical emergency kit.
• Competently participate in mock emergency drills in their dental offices.

Instructor:

BART JOHNSON attended UCLA and received his DDS in 1985, a General Practice Residency Certificate in 1986, and an MS in Oral Biology in 1989. He left sunny southern California for the “liquid sunshine” of Seattle in 1991 and was the Director of the UW General Practice Residency and an Associate Professor with Tenure from 1991 to 2007. In January of 2008, he opened Seattle Special Care Dentistry (SSCD) with his partner, Dr. Amy Winston. SSCD is a private practice dedicated to the care of medically/ physically/ emotionally and mentally compromised patients of all varieties. As a result, he has quite a bit of experience with real medical emergencies.

Dr. Johnson is also the Director of the Swedish Medical Center General Practice Residency program, which is based out of SSCD. This is a one-year postdoctoral training program for three residents. As part of the program, the residency provides after-hours emergency dental coverage for the Swedish Medical Center Emergency Department and covers inpatient care on the wards.

Dr. Johnson teaches courses in internal medicine, sedation, medical emergencies, physical diagnosis, hospital dentistry, pharmacology, basic life support and advanced cardiac life support. Nationally, Bart is a Fellow of the American Association of Hospital Dentists and a Diplomate of the American Board of Special Care Dentistry.

Bart loves playing with his two kids, backpacking, snowshoeing, kayaking, biking, animated films, and almost anything certifiably geeky.

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University of Washington is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.	The University of Washington is an ACDE member.
ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.
University of Washington designates this activity for 7 continuing education credits.