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General Practice Dentistry
Rotations at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg
Anesthesia RotationAnesthesia Rotation is at least a 70 hour rotation starting at from 7:00AM each day in the operating room. You will be shadowing the Anesthesiologist.
Objectives
Instruction in this area will enable the resident to experience:
- Complete a preoperative evaluation
- Understand Airway management
- Intubate under supervision
- Extubate under supervision
- Access and understand anesthetic agents and their effects
- Prevent and treat anesthetic emergencies
- Access patient recovery from anesthetic agents
- The resident must involve himself in the treatment of the patient from the anesthesiologist’s point of view. This includes everything from the pre-op evaluation to the placement of the IV, the administration of agents, intubation, airway management, extubation , and patient recovery.
Emergency RotationThe resident may provide care in the Emergency Department the same as a medical student or medical resident. Total rotation is 60 hours on site at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg.
Objectives to be fulfilled include participation to
- gain knowledge/skill to review a medical history to recognize factors which predispose a patient to systemic emergency during dental treatment
- gain skill/knowledge to anticipate systemic emergencies by preoperative evaluation and management
- gain knowledge/skill to diagnose the primary systemic abnormalities in a patient with a medical emergency
- gain knowledge/skill to support a patient’s respiration and/or circulation when required because of systemic collapse
- gain knowledge/skill to evaluate and manage seizure and sudden loss of consciousness in a patient
- gain knowledge/skill to treat allergic reactions encountered in the course of dental treatment
- gain knowledge/skill of proper wound debridement and wound closure
- gain knowledge/skill to treat dental and alveolar fractures as well as the initial management of fractures of facial bones.
Medicine RotationMedicine Rotation is at least a 16 hour rotation from 7:00AM –12:00 Noon each assigned day.
Objectives/Outcomes of Training
The program must provide formal instruction and supervised clinical experience in physical evaluation and medical risk assessment, including:
- taking, recording and interpreting a complete medical history
- understanding the indications of and interpretations of laboratory studies and other techniques used in the diagnosis of oral and systematic diseases
- understanding the relationship between oral health care and system diseases
- interpreting the physical evaluation performed by a physician with an understanding of the process, terms and techniques employed using the techniques of physical examination (i.e., inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation.
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