CE: Dental Emergencies: Essentials for the Dental Professional

Evening schedule:

5:15pm registration opens; buffet dinner available

6:00pm program begins

8:30pm-9:00pm program concludes

Thank you to our co-sponsors for their support with this program! Please be sure to arrive early to visit their display tables in foyer to the dining room. 

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West Rock Dental Temps

Program Description

Medical emergencies in the office can and do happen and with advances in medicine, longer life spans, poly-pharmacy, and the increased prevalence of chronic diseases, we are treating more and more complex patients. Dentists should have the basic knowledge to recognize, assess and manage a potentially life-threatening situation until EMS arrives and the patient can be transported to a medical facility. Typically, these tragic events happen through no fault of one’s own, but it’s critical to be prepared and know how to give the patient the best chance of recovery.

This lecture will review aspects of prevention, office preparedness and development of an emergency response team, a recommended basic emergency drug and equipment kit, activation of emergency medical services, basic life support, and management of some of the potential medical emergencies encountered in the dental office.

Topics include:

• Statistics on office preparedness for emergencies
• Prevention
• Pre-syncope/Syncope
• Orthostatic hypotension
• Hyperventilation crisis
• Cardiac arrest
• Hypertensive urgency/emergency
• Hypoglycemia
• Seizures
• Allergy/Anaphylaxis
• Drug overdose

Bio

Dr. Bikey is a board certified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon and feels privileged to call Victoria home since 2018. Dr. Bikey finished his surgery training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2015 at the University of Toronto. In addition to his surgical training, he earned a MSc degree completed in the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.  Prior to specializing he completed a 1-year General Practice Residency at the University of Toronto, which was based out of Mount Sinai Hospital.  Dr. Bikey obtained his DMD at the University of Saskatchewan.

Prior to settling in Victoria Dr. Bikey maintained a busy private practice in Toronto and was a clinical instructor at the University of Toronto, involved with training residents in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery program.  He practices full scope contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. His surgical interests are in the areas of dental implants, immediate implant placement, graft-less dental implant solutions, extraction site preservation, wisdom teeth removal and dental extractions, and reconstructive surgery.

In his spare time Dr. Bikey loves spending time with his wife – Mei, and 2 sons – Lucas and Levi, hiking, and enjoying the outdoors.