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Be prepared to handle life-threatening dental emergencies! Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office, 7th Edition helps you learn the skills needed to manage medical emergencies in the dental office or clinic. It describes how to recognize and manage medical emergencies promptly and proactively, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Malamed, Stanley F., 1944- (Author), Orr, Daniel L., II (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier/Mosby, [2015]
Edition:Seventh edition.
Subjects:
Medical emergencies > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Dental emergencies > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Medical emergencies.
Emergencies
Dentistry > methods
Emergency Treatment > methods
Dental Offices > standards
Urgences médicales > Guides, manuels, etc.
Urgences en dentisterie > Guides, manuels, etc.
Urgences médicales.
Dental emergencies.
Handbook
manuals (instructional materials)
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Table of Contents:
  • Part one. Prevention. Introduction
  • (Morbidity
  • Death
  • Risk factors
  • Classification of life-threatening situations
  • Outline of specific emergency situations)
  • Prevention
  • (Evaluation goals
  • Physical evaluation
  • Recognition of dental fear and anxiety)
  • Preparation
  • (General information
  • Emergency drug kits
  • Module one: Critical (essential) emergency drugs and equipment
  • Module two: Secondary (noncritical) emergency drugs and equipment
  • Module three: Advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS)
  • Module four: Antidotal drugs
  • Organization of the emergency drug kit
  • Appendix: Parenteral administration of drugs)
  • Legal considerations
  • (Modern liability insurance crises
  • Theories of liability
  • Emergency situations
  • Limiting liability for emergencies).
  • Part two. Unconsciousness. Unconsciousness: general considerations
  • Vasodepressor syncope
  • Postural hypotension
  • Acute adrenal insufficiency
  • Unconsciousness: differential diagnosis
  • (Age of patient
  • Circumstances associated with loss of consciousness
  • Position of the patient
  • Presyncopal signs and symptoms).
  • Part Three. Respiratory distress. Foreign body airway obstruction: Incidence
  • Hyperventilation
  • Asthma
  • Heart failure and acute pulmonary edema
  • Respiratory distress: differential diagnosis
  • (Medical history
  • Age
  • Sex
  • Related circumstances
  • Clinical symptoms between acute episodes
  • Position
  • Accompanying sounds
  • Symptoms associated with respiratory distress
  • Peripheral edema and cyanosis
  • Paresthesia of the extremities
  • Use of accessory respiratory muscles
  • Chest pain
  • Heart rate and blood pressure
  • Duration of respiratory distress).
  • Part four. Altered consciousness. Diabetes mellitus: hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia
  • (Acute complications
  • Chronic complications
  • Predisposing factors
  • Classification of diabetes
  • Hyperglycemia
  • Hypoglycemia
  • Control of diabetes
  • Prevention
  • Clinical manifestations
  • Pathophysiology
  • Management)
  • Thyroid gland dysfunction
  • Cerebrovascular accident
  • Altered consciousness: differential diagnosis.
  • Part five. Seizures. Types of seizure disorders. Part six. Drug-related emergencies. Drug overdose reactions
  • (Local anesthetic overdose reaction
  • Epinephrine (vasoconstrictor) overdose reaction
  • Central nervous system depressant overdose reactions)
  • Allergy
  • Drug-related emergencies: differential diagnosis.
  • Part seven. Chest pain. Angina pectoris
  • Acute myocardial infarction
  • Chest pain: differential diagnosis
  • (Noncardiac chest pain
  • Cardiac chest pain). Part eight. Cardiac arrest. Survival from sudden cardiac arrest
  • The chain of survival
  • The dental office
  • Cardiopulmonary arrest
  • Basic life support (CPR)
  • Pediatric considerations
  • Appendix: Quick-reference section to life-threatening situations.