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Anesthesia Death: Lessons from the Courtroom
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This 60-minute webinar reviews actual cases and provide participants with specific legal, clinical and training tools to improve patient safety and preserve their practice.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:
- Integrate safe and appropriate use of oral anxiolytic agents for adult patients.
- Recognize signs of significant stress and anxiety in patients during the consultation visit and present options to manage these issues.
- Identify the various pharmaceutical agents available for non-intravenous sedation and choose the optimal drug for a patient based on the therapeutic profile.
- Revise office protocols to include oral sedation in their practice.
Richard C. Robert, Jr., DDS, MS
San Francisco, CA
Relevant Conflict of Interest Disclosure: No Relevant Conflict of Interest Disclosures were reported.
Arthur W. Curley, JD
Larkspur, CA
Relevant Conflict of Interest Disclosure: No Relevant Conflict of Interest Disclosures were reported.
An Internet-based CME Activity
Original Release Date: March 22, 2018
Last Review Date: October 28, 2023
Expiration Date: October 28, 2026
Estimated time to complete this educational activity: 1.0 hours
Method of participation: Self-Study
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Richard C. Robert, Jr., DDS, MS
Clinical Professor University of California San Francisco, University of California San Francisco
Dr. Robert received his BS in Applied Biology from Georgia Institute of Technology and his DDS from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. During his undergraduate and dental training he conducted research in bioengineering and then while in the U.S. Army conducted bone graft research at the Letterman Army Institute of Research. He completed his oral and maxillofacial surgery training at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is currently in private practice and is Clinical Professor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco in the OMFS residency program. He directs the Office Anesthesia curriculum and co-directs the curricula in Major Surgical Anatomy and Dentoalveolar Surgery. He teaches courses for post graduate students from several specialties in anesthesia, emergency preparedness, orthognathic surgery, dentoalveolar surgery, anatomy and physiology, embryology and clinical photography. He is recipient of the Outstanding Educator of the Year Award and the Distinguished Colleague Award at the School of Dentistry at UCSF. Dr. Robert has been active in hospital affairs and chaired the sections of Oral Surgery and Dentistry at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco and Seton Medical Center in Daly City, California.
Dr. Robert is active in numerous committees and councils of the California Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He lectures nationally and internationally on a variety of topics including anesthesia, emergency preparedness, management of medical emergencies and orthognathic surgery. He chaired the Task Force which created the AAOMS DVD on Anesthesia and has authored chapters on anesthesia and pharmacology in current textbooks and articles in oral and maxillofacial surgery journals. He has been the recipient of the Committee Person of the Year on three occasions, the President’s Award, and the Distinguished Service Award of the California Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the AAOMS Committee Person of the Year Award. He has participated in the California Careforce and local outreach programs to provide care for the underserved.
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Arthur W. Curley, JD
Senior Trial Attorney, Assistant Professor of Dental Jurisprudence at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry
Mr. Curley is a senior trial attorney in the California healthcare defense firm of Bradley, Curley, Barrabee & Kowalski, PC. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with honors in 1970, he obtained his J.D. in 1974 from the UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Dental Jurisprudence at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco and an Adjunct Faculty Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. As a trial attorney, he has been defending doctors for over 46 years and has presented risk management courses throughout the United States and Canada. He is an associate of the American Board of Trial Advocates. Mr. Curley has published several articles on risk management and authored chapters in numerous text books on oral surgery, endodontics and periodontics.
Continuing Education Provider Approval
The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.
ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education.
ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.
The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons designates this activity for 1.0 continuing education credit(s).
AGD - Accepted Program Provider
FAGD/MAGD Credit
11/1/22-12/31/26
Provider ID# 214680
The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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