Course:
Local Anesthetics
Continuing Education Credits:
0 CE
Course Presenter(s):
Anthony FeckEducation Methods:
Category:
Date Added:
12/13/2024
Course Overview
More emergencies happen in dental offices related to the administration of local anesthesia than those that accompany oral or IV sedation. In this course, Dr. Anthony Feck dives deep into the different types of local anesthetics and the drug interactions between local anesthetics, vasoconstrictors, and sedative drugs, giving you a comprehensive top-down look of what you must consider and account for in order to treat safely.
Course Objectives
1. Drug interaction potential
2. Increased Toxicity Potential
3. Special needs of the sedation patient
4. Understand the timeline of local anesthetic development.
5. Learn the chemical characteristics and properties of Lidocaine, Prilocaine, Mepivacaine, Bupivicaine, Articaine,
6. What is pKa, and why is it important?
7. Study the mechanism of action (sodium blocking) and the factors in Onset of Action (anatomical variations, nerve morphology, lipid solubility, protein binding).
8. Recognize the signs of local anesthesia overdose and toxicity.
Course Instructors
Anthony Feck
As a clinician, he is particularly passionate about helping high-fear dental patients receive care comfortably and safely. This passion led him to co-found the Dental Organization for Conscious Sedat...See Bio
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10/1/2023 to 9/30/2025.
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