COTSWOLD SEDATION TRAINING
Quality sedation education for the whole dental team
6TH COTSWOLD SEDATION SYMPOSIUM
FRIDAY 4 OCTOBER 2024
NOW FULLY BOOKED
Theme: 'Perfect Preparation Prevents Poor Performance'
Friday 4th October 2024 (0900-1630)
Cheltenham Racecourse
Cheltenham GL50 4SH
Dentists £265
DCPs £110
NOW IN OUR 6TH YEAR
Bring your sedation team to Cheltenham Racecourse for a full day of top-quality sedation-related CPD.
Guest speakers, knowledgeable Faculty, great food & glorious views of the Racecourse
Don't just take our word for it!
2024 DENTAL SEDATION UPDATE COURSE
DENTAL SEDATION - REGULATION AND THE LAW
Chris Holden - General Dental Practitioner & SAAD Trustee
Aims
To provide opportunities to refine current practice to reflect lessons from previous mishaps and litigation and regulatory hearings
Objectives
To understand contemporaneous guidance for conscious sedation
To explore the reasons for litigation and regulatory investigation
GDC development outcomes A,C, and D
Speaker Bio
Chris is a GDP providing NHS & Private care for anxious and frightened patients and has been involved with the production of many of the national guidance documents on dental sedation. He provides medico-legal expert evidence in the UK, Europe and worldwide and is the lead for the SAAD Safe Sedation Practice Scheme - a quality assurance programme. He is a past President of SAAD and The International Federation of Dental Anaesthesiology Societies (IFDAS). Outside dentistry he is a keen aviator and warm water sailor.
VALIDATING SEDATION - A NEW APPROACH?
Chris Holden - General Dental Practitioner & SAAD Trustee
Aims
To explore the areas of sedation practice benefitting from robust evaluation
Objectives
To promote a validated evaluation by peer review
GDC development outcomes A,C, and D
Speaker Bio
Chris is a GDP providing NHS & Private care for anxious and frightened patients and has been involved with the production of many of the national guidance documents on dental sedation. He provides medico-legal expert evidence in the UK, Europe and worldwide and is the lead for the SAAD Safe Sedation Practice Scheme - a quality assurance programme. He is a past President of SAAD and The International Federation of Dental Anaesthesiology Societies (IFDAS). Outside dentistry he is a keen aviator and warm water sailor.
REMIMAZOLAM - FIRST STEPS
Mick Allen - Consultant in Special Care Dentistry
Aims & Objectives
Advantages& disadvantages of remimazolam.
Which patient groups would benefit?
How do get your leaders to fund the switch to remimazolam.
Speaker Bio
Mick is a Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Sedation and Special Care Dentistry at University Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry Cardiff. In 2023 he became part of a Bevan Commission Exemplar reforming sedation and GA services in Cardiff. This project has included use of remimazolam in special care dentistry patients and a cost/benefit analysis of its use in NHS services.
Mick is Dental sedation Lead for Cardiff and Vale UHB, Chair of the Welsh Government Sedation Strategic Advisory Forum and Secretary of the Dental Sedation Teachers Group.
SEDATION PATIENT ASSESSMENT
Hiral Patel - Senior Dental Officer, salaried dental service. Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital.
Aims & Objectives
Coming soon
Speaker Bio
Hiral is a Senior Dental Officer with the salaried dental service at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital. She established the IV sedation service in the department about 9 years ago and regularly provides training to specialist trainers and dental teams in conscious sedation techniques for special care patients.
MEDICAL EMERGENCY / COMPLICATION MANAGEMENT SKILL STATIONS
Maria Smith & 'CPRforlife' colleagues
Rotating workshops
Lead by experts in the field including approved resuscitation trainers and experienced dental sedationists.
- 'What if a patient doesn't have an easily diagnosed medical emergency?' - ABCDE assessment of the unwell patient
- 'Clear!' - Safe AED use
- 'Pass the flumazenil please' - Management of over-sedation
- Airway assessment & management
- Cannulation practice on dummy arm
Q&A - Ask the experts
CAPNOGRAPHY MASTERCLASS
Hugo Hunton - Consultant Anaesthetist, Gloucestershire
Hugo may need no introduction to previous attendees as he has lead the popular 'Human Factors' simulated resuscitation skill station twice before.
This year he will lead an overview of carbon dioxide respiratory physiology and highlight the advantages of capnography over pulse-oximetry. This will include the opportunity to see a capnography monitor in action including all the kit required to use one of these in your practice.
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