Description
Want to expand your knowledge of inhalation sedation and earn valuable CPD?
Join us for a practical, engaging webinar featuring clinical cases and an overview of available inhalation sedation training courses for the dental team.
Learn, earn CPD, and explore new opportunities!
A free webinar from SAAD providing one hour sedation CPD.
Don't worry if you cannot attend the live event. If you register to attend you will be sent a link to the recording and will be able to download your CPD certificate. The recording will be available for four weeks after the live event.
Speakers
Leah Adams
Clinical Director for Dental, Hertfordshire Community Trust
Leah's career has spanned a range of roles in hospital, general practice and community dental services, throughout which she has maintained a particular interest in governance relating to safe sedation practice, sedation teaching and treating dentally anxious adults and children with anxiety management techniques, including Inhalation sedation and IV sedation.
Leah was sedation lead for many years in a private Sedation Practice and also within a community dental service, during which time she established an IV sedation service for special care adults and children aged 12-16. Since assuming the post of Clinical Director in Hertfordshire she has played a key role in the development of nurse-led anxiety management pathways.
Joanne Hawkes
Dental Therapist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in the Department of Sedation & Special Care Dentistry.
Joanna is a Dental Therapist in Special Care and Sedation Dentistry at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. She provides dental care for adult patients and works closely with the Trust’s Dental Psychology Team to support patients with complex needs.
Previously, Joanna worked within community dental services across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. Her clinical interests include supporting patients with dental phobia and anxiety through dental treatment and inhalation (nitrous oxide) sedation. She also has a particular interest in providing dental care for patients before and after head and neck cancer treatment.
Chaired by Najla Nizarali
Consultant in Sedation and Special Care Dentistry, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS FT KCL
Najla is a consultant in Sedation and Special Care Dentistry at Guys and St Thomas' Hospital, honorary senior lecturer for Kings College London and also the Conscious Sedation Lead for Guys, St Thomas’, Harefield and Brompton hospitals. Najla provides training in conscious sedation to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and carries out procedures both as operator-sedationist and as a peripatetic sedationist. She has a special interest in education relating to Special Care Dentistry and provision of dental services to haematology patients and other patients requiring special care dentistry, using sedation techniques as appropriate.
Aim, Objectives and Development Outcomes
Aim: To discuss the role of inhalation sedation, showing how it can be used across the dental team and signposting routes to further training.
Learning Objectives:
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Explore where conscious sedation may support treatment delivered by dental therapists and dentists.
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Explore practical patient-selection and treatment-planning considerations.
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Identify opportunities for further education and skills development through SAAD
GDC Development Outcomes: B and C