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Dental ACLS & Airway Management Hands On Workshop

Created by Randy Pigg (See other events)
  • Oct 9, 2010 at 4:00am to Oct 10, 2010 at 1:00pm
  • Location: Houston Marriott South at Hobby Airport
  • Latest Activity: May 20, 2019
This workshop will provide participants with American Heart Association ACLS® Certification and provide a full day of emergency airway management techniques. Course consists of didactic lectures, intensive imaging, discussion and hands -on workshop with the world's most realistic airway mannequins and patient simulators.Audience: This course is appropriate for dentists and assisting staff who are involved in the administration of sedation & analgesia.Objectives: At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:1. Recognize and initiate early management of peri-arrest conditions that may result in cardiac arrest or complicate resuscitation outcome;2. Manage cardiac or respiratory arrest until return of spontaneous circulation and respiration, termination of resuscitation or transfer of care;3. Recognize other life threatening clinical situations and provide effective initial care and transfer to reduce disability and death;4. Describe & demonstrate a variety of techniques for maintaining oxygenation;5. Recognition and anticipation of difficult airwaysDevices: Mask ventilation, LMA and King LT rescue Ventilation, AirTraq Optical LaryngoscopeDirect Laryngoscopy, Malleable Stylette, and Bougies (tube introducers)Faculty: American Heart Association® Certified ACLS Instructors & Richard Levitan, MDAbout: Dr. Levitan has published approximately 30 peer-reviewed articles on emergency airway management and is the author of 2 textbooks. He serves on the Editorial Board of Annals of Emergency Medicine, and is a reviewer for numerous emergency medicine and anesthesia journals. He has been a design consultant and investigator for many airway device manufacturers. He has given approximately 350 lectures on airway management worldwide, and for almost ten years has run a monthly hands-on cadaver-based airway workshop. He is currently an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.Date: October 9 & 10, 2010 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. Breakfast & lunch provided.

Conscious Sedation Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education by the ADA CERP.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.Seating is limited, pre-registration is required.Registration can be completed online by clicking hereOr by phone at 888.581.4448 x 2 www.SedationConsulting.com

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