Medical Emergencies, CPR, BLS
Dentaljuce's module on Medical Emergencies in Dentistry, including CPR and BLS, is an essential course designed for the entire dental team.
This course comprehensively covers the very important skills and knowledge needed to address such emergencies, from understanding CQC requirements and effective use of emergency drug kits to mastering CPR and airway management techniques.
The course spans a wide range of urgent scenarios including adrenal insufficiency, allergies, anaphylaxis, asthma, and more, complete with practical training videos for defibrillator and AED use.
Whether it’s handling cardiac events, managing respiratory crises, or dealing with acute injuries like bleeds, burns, and sprains, this course prepares dental professionals to respond confidently and competently, ensuring patient safety and optimal care during emergencies.
If you're not yet a member of Dentaljuce, we highly recommend you to join and gain access to our comprehensive course on medical emergencies.
This course, along with over 100 other CPD courses, is available for a single membership payment.
Participant Feedback Review: Medical Emergencies, CPR, BLS
Overall Participant Impression
Participants highly praised the "Medical Emergencies, CPR, BLS" module, describing it as comprehensive, clear, informative, and extremely valuable for clinical practice. The course significantly boosted confidence in recognising, managing, and responding to medical emergencies, reinforcing essential knowledge required in dental settings.
Key Strengths
Participants particularly appreciated:
- Comprehensive coverage of essential medical emergency scenarios and management.
- Practical demonstration videos which effectively reinforced learning.
- Clear, structured presentation of very important topics such as CPR, Basic Life Support, and emergency protocols.
- Relevance and direct applicability of the course material to daily clinical practice.
- Helpful refresher content suitable for maintaining and updating clinical competence.
Specific Positive Comments:
- "Excellent and comprehensive module. A lot of useful information and well presented."
- "Great quality CPD. Really enjoyed working through this module and feel I would be much more confident managing medical emergencies."
- "Excellent overview—videos were brilliant and MCQ questions were a good way to test knowledge."
- "Clear clinical facts and advisory information adequate for successful BLS."
- "The information was very well organised to facilitate learning of each scenario that could be encountered in practice."
- "Everything was relevant. 100% useful, easy to do. Enjoyed it. Suits my learning style."
- "Great and interesting module covering all the basics well."
- "The way of teaching was amazing. I found the content really helpful and easy to understand."
- "Medical emergencies and management explained clearly. Videos clear and simple to understand."
Areas for Improvement
Participants offered minor suggestions for enhancing the course:
- Inclusion of additional practical videos demonstrating use of emergency drugs and equipment (oxygen cylinders, masks, airway adjuncts).
- Additional scenario-based exercises and interactive simulations for deeper practical engagement.
Closed-Question Feedback Summary:
- Met learning objectives: 97.5% strongly agree/agree
- Good quality: 96.5% strongly agree/agreedisagree
- Useful & relevant: 97.5% strongly agree/agree
- Engaging: 96.1% strongly agree/agree
- Pitched at right level: 97.0% strongly agree/agree
These figures highlight excellent participant satisfaction, strongly endorsing the course's quality, relevance, and practicality.
Conclusion
Overall, the "Medical Emergencies, CPR, BLS" course received exceptionally positive feedback, with learners emphasising its comprehensive, clear, and highly practical approach. While minor suggestions were made for updates and added interactive content, participants overwhelmingly agreed that the course significantly enhanced their ability and confidence to manage medical emergencies in dental practice.
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 medical emergencies, in line with their identified personal learning requirements.
Course objective
- to help the learner recognise and manage the variety of medical emergencies that may arise both within and outside the Practice, including cardiac arrest and the principles of CPR.
Anticipated learning outcomes:
- know of and understand the various medical emergencies that might arise in and out of dental practice.
- recognise the signs and symptoms of different types of medical emergencies.
- know about and be able to undertake their management.
- know how the risks of a medical emergency occurring can be reduced for individual patients.
- 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): A, B, C, D.