{"title":"Expanding the scope of practice--should dental nurses be permitted to administer local analgesia?","authors":"Rowan Noble","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dumbing down the profession or meeting the need of more patients by the optimum management of resources? Unequivocally, patient safety and non-maleficence are central to this issue. Restrictions must be imposed to ensure this. Without doubt, continuing competence would have to be demonstrated by the registrant and they would only administer local analgesia after a written prescription by a dentist. Restrictions to infiltration analgesia would also seem prudent. if all involved, including patient representatives, consider this of merit, several issues would have to be resolved such as who wouldnd be responsible for training, the content of the programme a funding for training. This is fundamental for the conception and implementation of such a qualification. Recently, the issue of direct access has been opened. The profession has changed in recent years with more focus being placed on dentists to meet the need of patients burdened by dental disease, particularly the disenfranchised, by utilising the whole dental team. Notwithstanding this and it may seem counter intuitive, but if this role was extended to dental nurses, it may be most adopted in services where time is not so important such as the salaried and other secondary services.</p>","PeriodicalId":21571,"journal":{"name":"SAAD digest","volume":"30 ","pages":"29-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40303513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study at Manchester Dental Hospital, of the compliance of IV sedation patients and their escorts.","authors":"Kate Lightfoot","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Oral surgery, under intravenous sedation, is carried out on a daily basis at Manchester Dental Hospital. This essay discusses the background of conscious sedation in the dental setting and looks at the compliance of patients (and escorts) when having intravenous sedation. The patient journey, from pre-operative assessment through to treatment is considered. Hospital instructions indicate an obligation for patients to attend with a responsible adult (eighteen or over) who remains with them throughout their treatment, escorts them home,and arranges their care for the next twenty-four hours. By following these instructions the patient should receive optimal care. Two questionnaires were devised and given to patients/escorts to assess their compliance with Manchester Dental Hospital postoperative protocols. 100% compliance was the set standard, with results presented as pie charts. This work began during the undergraduate summer vacation of 2012 and continued over a five-month period. Initial results suggested that compliance was generally good but certain improvements could be made. Suggestions for future development are presented. These aim to give clarity to all patients/escorts and their specific roles in the anticipated treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":21571,"journal":{"name":"SAAD digest","volume":"30 ","pages":"25-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40303512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SAAD digest: 30 volumes of information from SAAD.","authors":"Nigel D Robb","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21571,"journal":{"name":"SAAD digest","volume":"30 ","pages":"33-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40303515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The GDC's new standards, and managing patients' pain, discomfort or anxiety.","authors":"Paul Averley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21571,"journal":{"name":"SAAD digest","volume":"30 ","pages":"40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40303517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of hypnotherapy in dentistry.","authors":"Enrico Facco, Gastone Zanette, Edoardo Casiglia","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dental fear is a universal phenomenon justifying the increasing relevance of psychology and the behavioural sciences to dental training and clinical practice. Pharmacological sedation has been used more and more over the past two decades, in order to relieve dental anxiety and phobia and let the patient face oral surgery safely. Hypnosis is a still underused but powerful non-pharmacological tool in dentistry. It provides an effective sedation whilst maintaining patient collaboration, but it also may help patients recovering from dental anxiety and phobia as well as those with a severe gag reflex. While pharmacological sedation affords a temporary respite and helps the patient to cope with a single procedure, hypnosis can effectively allow for both an excellent sedation in a physiological way and the treatment of patients' anxiety, or substantially decrease the doses used for sedative and analgesic drugs when these are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":21571,"journal":{"name":"SAAD digest","volume":"30 ","pages":"3-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40305933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bispectral index (BIS) monitoring of intravenous sedation for dental treatment.","authors":"Panna Shah, Graham Manley, David Craig","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>To investigate the efficacy of the Bispectral Index monitor (BIS) in monitoring patients receiving intravenous midazolam for dental treatment.</p><p><strong>Background: </strong>The BIS monitor has been proposed as an objective form of monitoring the level of consciousness in patients undergoing sedation and anaesthesia. It analyses electroencephalogram wave forms and quantifies this information to produce a numerical value of 0-100. To assess its efficacy,this study investigates if BIS correlates with the Observer's Assessment of Alertness/Sedation scale (OAA/S).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>50 episodes of intravenous sedation using midazolam were provided for anxious adults. Sedation proceeded in the standard manner but with the addition of BIS monitoring and assessment of the depth of sedation using the OAA/S scoring system.The operator was blinded to the BIS monitor. Information from the BIS monitor and corresponding OAA/S scores were recorded at 5-minute intervals and at clinically significant points, and correlation was tested using Spearman's Rank test.The effect of electromyographic interference (EMG) on the BIS reading was also investigated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A strong positive correlation was found between BIS and OAA/S.The mean range of BIS values recorded during sedation was 81+8.The BIS value was found to be most accurate at the end point of sedation.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>BIS monitoring may be a useful adjunct in monitoring patients receiving sedation for dental treatment using midazolam.</p>","PeriodicalId":21571,"journal":{"name":"SAAD digest","volume":"30 ","pages":"7-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40305934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decision aids in paediatric dental sedation: helping children choose what is right for them.","authors":"Joe Hulin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21571,"journal":{"name":"SAAD digest","volume":"30 ","pages":"32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40303514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}