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This continuing education article reviews basic and essential emergency drugs that should be available in dental practices to manage untoward events during procedures.
Dental practices must be equipped with basic emergency drugs, and additional agents if providing sedation, to manage potential adverse events.
Supports emergency drug preparedness in dental offices; leaves open optimal sedation protocols pending prospective validation.
The risk for complications while providing dental procedures is greatest when caring for patients having significant medical compromise. It is comforting that significant adverse events can generally be prevented by careful preoperative assessment, along with attentive intraoperative monitoring and support. Nevertheless, the office team must be prepared to manage untoward events should they arise. This continuing education article will address basic emergency drugs that should be available in all dental practices and additional agents that become essential for those practices providing various levels of procedural sedation or general anesthesia.
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Daniel E. Becker (2014) conducted a review in Medical emergencies in dental practices. Emergency drug kits was evaluated. This continuing education article reviews basic and essential emergency drugs that should be available in dental practices to manage untoward events during procedures.
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