A Guide to Maintaining Professional Standards in Conscious Sedation for Dentistry 2011

Important documents were issued to delegates at the recent SAAD conference in September now available on-line:  Only "A Guide to Maintaining Professional Standards in Conscious Sedation for Dentistry" need concern dentists, who only provide the newly classified "Level 1" sedation techniques, which include RA, IV with Midazolam, Oral Sedation or Intra-nasal Midazolam.

This document specifies the key areas of training and update required and it stipulates that those already providing Level 1 conscious sedation techniques should update every 5 years.

If a GDP or indeed a competent DCP attends one of my one-day courses, it will provide 7.5 hours vCPD of the 12hours required every 5 years. The other 4.5 hours can be made up at other meetings or journal questionnairres, for example, over 5 years. Not an onerous task.
If there is a demand I can also run a 1/2 day, (4 hours of vCPD)  strictly for those already using RA.
Contact me richard@the-ra-coach.co.uk to discuss.

SAAD Autumn Conference 2011

Well this will be a different blog post. I am on the train to London for the SAAD confeeence at the Royal Society of Medicine. The conference title is "Beyond the basics"

The program includes the following topics.

Morning sessions
Intra-nasal Midazolam, which is mainly used for special needs patients. 1 hour

Sedation Dentistry in Spain. This will be interesting as I have recently had interest from a Spanish dentist wishing to travel to Newbury for my RA courses. 25 mins.

An update on the SAAD training coures for Therapists and Hygienists "What next" 30 mins.

CPD recommendations for practitioners.20 mins.

Training for advanced Sedation techniques 20 mins

Presentations 5 mins

Lunch: Time to network!

Baby Boomers: The challenges for sedation Dentistry 1 hour

Evaluation Benefits for Clinical Governance & CQC 30 mins

Anxiety management without drugs. An Update: 30mins

So that is what is in store for me this Saturday.

I'll write a brief summary on each presentation later.