Fri 28 February 2025 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Nitrous oxide administration FEBRUARY
An ideal session for the dental practitioner who is new to nitrous oxide sedation, or an excellent refresher for those wanting to update their skills.
This full-day course provides both the underpinning knowledge, as well as hands-on skills development, to enable safe and effective nitrous oxide sedation. Participants will have the opportunity to administer nitrous oxide and to experience the effects of nitrous oxide sedation for themselves.
You will:
- understand the relevant basic respiratory physiology, including the uptake and distribution of gases
- understand the pharmacology, and physiology of nitrous oxide
- recognise the indications, contraindications, and complications of nitrous oxide inhalation sedation
- appreciate the legislative requirements around the delivery of nitrous oxide sedation
- identify the characteristics of the different nitrous oxide/oxygen delivery systems and competently perform safety checks
- implement a clinical protocol and technique for the use of nitrous oxide/oxygen sedation
- deliver effective and safe nitrous oxide sedation.
Presented by Dr Marguerite Reith, Dr Wessam Atteya
CPD hours: 6 clinical hours
RSVP 14/02/2025, limited to 20 participants.
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Schedule
Speakers
A/Prof Marguerite Reith
Marguerite is a University of Queensland graduate, but left Queensland to pursue a career in the Royal Australian Air Force, serving in Melbourne, Newcastle and Malaysia.
Deciding to ‘spread her wings’ further, she then transferred to the Royal Air Force (RAF), where she spent the next 21 years serving in various clinical, operational and command posts throughout Europe and the Middle East.
It was in the UK Armed Forces that she first developed an interest in sedation and anxiety management and completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Conscious Sedation at King’s College London.
This equipped her to set up a referral service treating military patients under IV sedation. She also developed a course in sedation and anxiety management for newly qualified military dentists whilst also training dentists and dental nurses in nitrous oxide inhalation sedation.
An examiner with the National Examining Board for Dental Nurses for over 10 years, she has also lectured at annual conferences of the Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry (SAAD), the UK peak body for dental sedation.
On her retirement from the RAF and her return to her ‘home town’ of Brisbane, Marguerite joined Queensland Health, supervising undergraduate students in oral surgery at the UQ Oral Health Centre, Herston.
Having attained AHPRA endorsement for Conscious Sedation, she set up an IV sedation clinic at Herston, the only such service for public dental patients in the State. She has continued to provide this service, alongside various management roles in the corporate and public sectors.
She is currently an Associate Professor in Clinical Dentistry at James Cook University and is on the Australian Dental Council Register of Assessors.
Dr Wessam Atteya
BDS Cai, ADC Melb, FRACDS Syd, MFDS RCS Ed
MFD RCS Ire, MFDS RCS Eng, MFDS RCPS Glasg
Wessam is an experienced general dentist in Melbourne. He believes that “professional development” is a journey not a destination, so he has pursued and attained several reputable post-graduate certifications including the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons (FRACDS) and the Memberships of the Faculty of Dental Surgery (MFDS-RCS) in Edinburgh, Ireland, England, and Glasgow.
