DAST-113 Dental Office Emergencies

Credits 1 / 1 Contact Hours
Pre-requisite: Division signature is required for registration; Program Eligibility Requirements; Placement into College Level Reading, completion of ELAP-120 with a 2.0 or higher, or successful completion of ACRD-090, ACRD-091 or ACRD-092. Co-requisite: Student must take one section each of DAST-110, DAST-111, DAST-112, DAST-115, DAST-116 and DAST-117.
This course is a study of preparation for and responding to medical emergencies which may occur in the dental office and the basics of dental and medical terminology.

Course Outcomes
1. Take and record all vital signs and infom1 the dentist of any change or abnormality 2. Recognize the importance of obtaining and making use of the patient’s current health history 3. Recognize signs and symptoms related to specific medical conditions/emergencies likely to occur in the dental office including: cardiovascular and cerebrovascular irregularities, diabetes, epilepsy, reaction to drugs, anesthetics, respiratory irregularities including hypo and hyperventilation, shock and syncope 4. Describe emergency treatment of complications of diseases/conditions listed above 5. Identify the names, uses and routes of medical emergency drugs used in a dental practice 6. Divide medical terms into component parts 7. Analyze, pronounce, and spell medical terms using common combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes 8. Name the body systems and cavities and their organs and functions 9. Analyze, pronounce, and spell new terms related to organs and tissues in the body 10. Identify and define useful diagnostic and procedural suffixes 11. Analyze, spell, and pronounce medical tem1s that contain diagnostic and procedural suffixes 12. Identify and define common prefixes used in medical terms 13. Analyze, spell, and pronounce medical terms that contain prefixes 14. 14. Identify medical specialists and describe their specialties 15. Identify combining forms used in tem1s that describe specialists.