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 638K bytes in size.
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  Medical emergencies and resuscitation

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