Local Anaesthesia
Welcome to the Dentaljuce course on Local Anaesthesia, a very important skill set for any dental professional.
This course covers a full range of anaesthetic techniques, ensuring proficiency in both traditional and advanced methods. From the Inferior Dental Block to the Gow-Gates and Vazirani-Akinosi blocks, each technique is thoroughly presented, supported by engaging videos and slideshows to enhance your learning experience.
Additionally, the module looks into more specialised areas such as Indirect IA nerve block, Intra-osseous anaesthesia, and Infra-Orbital block, ensuring a well-rounded understanding of local anaesthetic procedures.
This course not only aims to build your technical skills but also ensures a deep understanding of the principles and safety considerations essential for effective local anaesthesia administration. Join us to refine your techniques, expand your knowledge, and elevate the standard of care you provide to your patients.
If you're not yet a member of Dentaljuce, we highly recommend you to join and gain access to our comprehensive course on local anaesthesia.
This course, along with over 100 other CPD courses, is available for a single membership payment.
Participant Feedback Review: Local Anaesthesia
Overall Participant Impression
Participants rated the "Local Anaesthesia" module highly, describing it as an excellent, informative, and practically relevant refresher course. Learners found the module significantly enhanced their confidence and competence in delivering effective anaesthesia, leading to improved patient care in daily dental practice.
Key Strengths
Participants particularly appreciated:
- Clear and detailed explanations of various local anaesthetic techniques, reinforced through engaging video demonstrations.
- Practical insights into the advantages and disadvantages of different techniques, aiding clinical decision-making.
- High-quality multimedia resources, notably the illustrative videos, which effectively supported learning and improved practical understanding.
Specific Positive Comments:
- "Brilliant refresher even for experienced dentists."
- "Very informative and helpful. The videos were extremely useful in visualising the different techniques."
- "Excellent and engaging course. Fundamental topic discussed in an easy and clear way."
- "Highly illustrative with a lot of practical usefulness."
- "Short, crisp, and very informative CPD, definitely a great help in clinical practice."
- "Fundamental topic in easy language; videos made it clearer to understand. Outstanding activity—excellent presentation."
- "Great course, informative and detailed, explaining clearly all types of anaesthesia with their advantages and differences."
- "Really good demonstrations on LA techniques; I learned a lot."
- "Excellent way to reinforce knowledge, concise yet comprehensive."
Participants emphasised the module's practicality, noting immediate applicability to patient care and significant improvements in their professional knowledge.
Areas for Improvement
Some participants suggested minor enhancements:
- Inclusion of additional topics such as anaesthetic techniques specifically tailored to children.
- Uniformity and improved audio clarity across all video presentations to ensure consistency and ease of learning.
Closed-Question Feedback Summary:
- Met learning objectives: 97.0% strongly agree/agree
- Good quality: 95.5% strongly agree/agree
- Useful & relevant: 99.2% strongly agree/agree
- Engaging: 97.8% strongly agree/agree
- Pitched at right level: 97.8% strongly agree/agree
These results clearly indicate high satisfaction among participants, reinforcing the module's value, quality, and clinical relevance.
Conclusion
The "Local Anaesthesia" module was highly praised by dental professionals for being thorough, clear, and practically relevant. Participants found the multimedia content particularly beneficial, noting significant improvements in their clinical skills and confidence. With minor enhancements suggested, this course was widely recommended as an essential refresher, highly effective in supporting best practice in local anaesthesia delivery.
Aim
The aim of the learning and teaching materials in this Dentaljuce module is to allow learners to develop their professional knowledge, understanding and competence in Local Anaesthesia, in line with their identified personal learning requirements.
Course objective
- to update members of the dental team with current best practice in delivery of Local Anaesthesia.
Anticipated learning outcomes:
The learner will, with respect to the components that he or she has elected to study as listed below:- understand through demonstration and explanation how and when to apply different local anaesthetic techniques.
- be aware of the advantages and disadvantages of each technique.
- know when these techniques can be combined.
- through achieving these outcomes, provide an improved level of service to their patients.
GDC Development Outcomes
This CPD will support the learner in meeting the following GDC Development Outcome(s): C, D.