National Dental Advisory Committee - Emergency Drugs & Equipment in Primary Dental Care

Practice improvement

To provide evidence that a dental practice maintains and improves its capability to manage medical emergencies, the dental team should ensure that:

• the resuscitation equipment is checked weekly to ensure that it is ready for use.
• the practice has a system in place to regularly check that the emergency drugs have not passed their expiry dates.
• a log of staff training is kept.
• a Significant Event Analysis (SEA) is undertaken after every medical emergency with any learning points shared and an action plan for improvement produced.