{"id":317,"date":"2013-11-19T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T11:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:28:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:28:40","slug":"saad-society-for-the-advancement-of-anaesthesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/update\/saad-society-for-the-advancement-of-anaesthesia\/","title":{"rendered":"SAAD-   Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A full history of SAAD can be read here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saad.org.uk\/history-of-saad\/\">http:\/\/www.saad.org.uk\/history-of-saad\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our principle Dr Dipesh Patel and his nurse Anna have recently updated their sedation training. As conscious sedation is a team exercise it is important for both dentist and nurse to attend this together and receive training in parallel.<\/p>\n<p>This course acted as a refresher and ensures we are kept up to date with the current techniques used. The course is taught by the best known names in Dental Sedation within the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The course consists of theoretical and practical instruction in all aspects relating to the latest guidelines of conscious sedation techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the course content for Dentists from the\u00a0 SAAD website. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saad.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.saad.org.uk<\/a>_)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Content<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aspects of anxiety and pain control, treatment planning and patient assessment. The use of behavioural management, selection and appropriate use of drugs for sedation techniques.<\/li>\n<li>Physiology, anatomy and pharmacology relevant to Conscious Sedation.<\/li>\n<li>Organisation of the dental team, medico-legal aspects of sedation, record keeping, psychological and physiological monitoring of the sedated patient.<\/li>\n<li>Revision of the requirements of the General Dental Council in relation to the provision of Basic Life Support. Current UK Resuscitation Council Guidelines will be provided.<\/li>\n<li>Clinical cases of various conscious sedation techniques are assessed and practitioners may have practical experience of Relative Analgesia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Dental nurses the course content differs consisting of 3 core areas.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"321\">KNOWLEDGE:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>anatomy and physiology<br \/>\npharmacology<br \/>\npatient assessment<br \/>\nsedation equipment<br \/>\nsedation techniques (oral\/RA\/IV)<br \/>\nmonitoring<br \/>\nmanagement of complications<br \/>\nmedico-legal aspects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ATTITUDES:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>care and support<br \/>\nflexible approach<br \/>\ncalm, decisive and purposeful manner<br \/>\nkeeping up to date<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"301\">SKILLS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>preparation for sedation<br \/>\npatient preparation and care<br \/>\nassisting with induction of sedation<br \/>\nmonitoring during treatment<br \/>\nrecovery<br \/>\nemergency care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Below are the course certificates:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saad-certificates.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-318\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-318 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saad-certificates.png\" alt=\"saad certificates\" width=\"545\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saad-certificates.png 545w, https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saad-certificates-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A full history of SAAD can be read here http:\/\/www.saad.org.uk\/history-of-saad\/ Our principle Dr Dipesh Patel and his nurse Anna have recently updated their sedation training. As conscious sedation is a team exercise it is important for both dentist and nurse to attend this together and receive training in parallel. This course acted as a refresher &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/update\/saad-society-for-the-advancement-of-anaesthesia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SAAD-   Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-team","category-update"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashforddental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}