CPD - First Aid For The Dental Team

Ian Robertson, Resuscitation Officer and Advanced Life Support Instructor, Glasgow

Liz Webster, Immediate Life Support Instructor, Glasgow Dental Hospital

Tuesday 29th November 2022 - Jury's Inn, Inverness

Morning Session: 9:30am - 12:30pm / Afternoon Session:1:30pm - 4:30pm

3 Hours CPD  for each session

Fees: GDPs £20, Team members £10, Non HDP members £35

A 3 hour practical session on a core CPD topic for all the dental team. Ian and Liz have presented this course for HDP members for the past 8 years and it is always well received and popular. Lunch is not provided but there will be tea/coffee provided during registration periods and in the morning and afternoon breaks.

The following topics will be covered in each session:

- Assessment theory and skills

- First aid scenarios

- Delivering first aid care in a dental setting

Learning Outcomes - at the end of the session delegates will:

- Be more confident managing both minor and major first aid events including electrocution, catastrophic haemorrhage and drowning

**There will be half an hour at the end of each session to take questions on anything not covered above**

Ian has worked in anaesthetics for 15 years before taking up the post of Resuscitation Officer in Glasgow in 2005. He has been an Advanced Life Support Instructor since 2001 and is responsible for all undergraduate dental medical emergency training at Glasgow University.

Liz delivers Medical Emergency and Basic Life Support education to all of the dental team. She has been an Immediate Life Support Instructor since 2008 and is currently writing and developing a course for conscious sedation in dentistry. She was involved with a poster presentation at the 2018 European Resuscitation Congress in Bologna which was also published in Resuscitation Journal.

For bookings please email cara@ident.co.uk