Medical Emergencies and Resuscitation -
      Standards for clinical practice and training
      for dental practitioners and dental care professionals
      in general dental practice
 
      July 2006

This document provides guidance and recommendations concerning common medical emergencies in dental practice. It describes medical risk assessment, resuscitation procedures and equipment, and the use of emergency drugs in general dental practice. It also includes topics such as staff training, patient transfer and post-resuscitation/ emergency care.

The document is in Adobe PDF format.
It is 41 pages long, approximately 865K bytes in size.
Depending on your internet link, it may therefore take a little while to download.
 
The PDF file includes bookmarks and links from the table of contents to the appropriate sections of the document.
 
Please click the link below to download the document.

  Medical emergencies and resuscitation

You may also wish to refer to our statement on the Emergency use of buccal midazolam in dental practice.
 
If you already have a hardcopy or a booklet version of the original document
you can download the updated pages only (in PDF format)
using the following link:
  Update pack   (January 2010)

 

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This document is also available in full-colour printed booklet form from the Resuscitation Council. Please refer to our publications page for full details of this and other publications available from the Council.
 
 
 
 

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