Staff training for Dental Sedation
Board Certified Anesthesiologists train your dentists and assistants in our office. The training is personalized to ensures maximized learning. Training is comprehensive. Through didactic and hands-on training, our staff learned comprehensive IV sedation techniques and developed immediate confidence. Our staff ensure our office is set up to meet state standards and prepared for dental board inspections.
Training for Dental Sedation
ADMA instructors train dentists and staff in our office.
We emphasize thorough didactics in pharmacology, physiology, airway management, emergency response, patient selection, discharge criteria, recovery time, documentation, and patient safety.
We provide practical and timely training in equipment use, IV sedation techniques, office set up, and office emergency response.
Instruction is hands-on and provided during each live case.
A preparatory facility inspection is performed with written recommendations prior to training completion.
Office staff is strongly encouraged to participate throughout the course.
Our training course meets American Board of Anesthesiology and American Society of Anesthesiology’s recommended standards for training non-physician healthcare providers.
Our course curriculum exceeds Part III (Sedation Training for a Post-graduate Program) of the American Dental Association.
Anesthesia Ethics
The professional standards are, in turn, supported by practice standards which relate to specific areas of practice that require more detailed standards to enable practitioners to meet the professional standards and ethical principles. All our staff adhere to five ethical practices:
put patients’ interests first
ensure safe practice
communicate effectively
provide good care
maintain public trust and confidence
Minimal sedation is a drug-induced state during which the patient responds normally to verbal commands. Cognitive function and physical co-ordination may be impaired but airway reflexes, cardiovascular and ventilatory functions are unaffected.
Moderate sedation is a drug-induced depression of consciousness during which patients respond purposefully6 to verbal commands, either alone or accompanied by light tactile stimulation, throughout the period of sedation. The patient has the ability to maintain their airway patency on request, spontaneous ventilation is adequate and cardiovascular function is usually maintained.
Deep sedation is a drug-induced depression of consciousness during which patients cannot easily be woken but respond purposefully following repeated or painful stimulation. The ability to independently maintain ventilatory function may be impaired. Patients may require assistance in maintaining a patent airway, and spontaneous ventilation may be inadequate. Cardiovascular function is usually maintained.
General anesthesia is a drug-induced loss of consciousness during which patients are not able to be woken, even by painful stimulation. The ability to independently maintain ventilatory function is often impaired. Patients often require assistance in maintaining a patent airway, and positive pressure ventilation may be required because of depressed spontaneous ventilation or drug-induced depression of neuromuscular function. Cardiovascular function may be impaired.
Sedation-related complications are complications resulting from sedation and include, but are not limited to, depression of consciousness beyond the intended level of sedation, Airway impairment, Hypoventilation, Hypoxia, or Hypotension.
Therefore, for safe and effective sedation practice, it is absolutely essential: that the practitioner complete formal education and training to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to provide sedation safely and competently; that practitioners use only those techniques and drugs for sedation in which they are formally educated and trained.
CONTACT DENTAL SEDATION SERVICES TODAY
At Dental Sedation Services, we provide high-quality, advanced dental anesthesia services to general dentists and dental specialists in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the New York metropolitan area. The anxiety that many patients experience when receiving dental care is significantly reduced when treated in a familiar environment. Our office-based anesthesia services make dentistry more accessible and affordable, while offering patients the convenience of receiving comprehensive dental care in their own dental practice. For more information, you can contact us at (732)986-3690, or visit our website.