This course provides updated information for using oral conscious sedation for pediatric and adolescent dental patients that can be performed in your offices with your staff. Drug pharmacology and selected regimens will be presented in the context of appropriate patient selection, while considering your pediatric patients’ anatomical airway and physiological development. This year, we will also add morphine in our drug regimen’s selection. This course also will update you with new rules and regulation from the CA Dental Board for oral conscious sedation, refresh your understanding of patient management, monitoring, record-keeping, and other safety issues.

This course is designed to help attendees become familiar with various medical emergencies, immediately life-threatening and non-life threatening, that can occur in a dental office. Situations include but not limited to myocardial infarction, angina, asthma, allergic reactions, syncope, and hypoglycemia. The first session of the course will provide up-to-date information about the pathophysiology, prevention, and management of the aforementioned medical emergencies.