2. Sedation Flashcards
What are the advanced behavior guidance strategies
- Protective stabilization
- Sedation
- General anesthesia
What are the four stages of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development
- Sensorimotor stage
- Preoperational stage
- Concrete operational stage
- Formal operaitons
Describe the Piaget’s sensorimotor stage
- Birth to 24 months
- Little to no meaningful verbal communication
- Hyperaware of people around them
- Perceptive to non-verbal communication
- **Key feature= object permanence (meaning they understand objects exist even if they can’t physically see them in that moment)
Describe the Piaget’s preoperational stage
- 2-5 years
- Begin to use language
- Can form mental symbols
- Language is concrete and literal
- Limited logical reasoning
- Egocentric view of the world
Describe the Piaget’s Concrete operational stage
- 6-11 y/o
- Increased logical reasoning
- Still have hard time with abstract ideas
- Benefit from concrete instructions
Describe the Piaget’s formal operation stage
- 11+ years
- Can think about abstrations and hypothetical concepts
- Reason analytically
What are the three classifications of temperment classified by Chess and Thomas and describe each
Easy temperment
- Mostly positive mood with mild/moderate intensity
- Adapts quickly
- Approaches new situations
Difficult temperment
- Withdraws from new situations
- Slow adaptability
- Negative emotion of high intensity
Slow to warm up temperment
- Shy
- Slow adatability
- Negative emotional expressions of low intensity
At what age do kids start to warm up to strangers (separate from parents)
school age
What are the typical fears of an infant/todler
- Strangers
- Loud sounds
- Sudden movements
- Falling
Lap exams should be done for what ages
infants/toddlers (good for parental involvement)
At what age can kids be managed with language
pre-school age
What are the different variables associated with uncooperative behavior
- Dental fear (realistic v.s theoretical)
- Demographics (race, gender, household,etc.)
- Coping skills (generally increases with age and varies among individuals)
- Pain (Subjective, anxiety upregulated pain)
- Parental anxiety
Difference between realistic and theorized dental fear
Realistic is they have had the bad experience themselves and theorized is when someone tells them a bad experience
Define minimal sedation
- Drug induced state (Still conscious)
- Responds normally to verbal commands
- impaired cognitive and coordination
- Ventilation and CV function unaffected
Moderate sedation definition
- Respond to purposeful commands (Still conscious)
- No intervention required to maintain airway
- Spontaneous ventilation adequate
- CV function usually maintained
Deep Sedation
- Still conscious
- Can’t be easily aroused (respond to repeated purposeful or painful stimuli)
- Ability to maintain airway and ventilation may be impaired
- Spontaneous ventilation may be inadequate
- May be partial or complete loss of protective airway reflexes
General anesthesia definition
- Unconscious
- Not arousable
- Ability to maintain airway often impaired
- CV function may be impaired
Routes of sedation agents
- Inhalation *
- Oral**
- Nasal
- Rectal
- Submucosal
- Intramuscular
- IV
What are the disadvantages of oral sedation and advantages
Advantages
- Often well tolerated
- No pain
Disadvantages
- Most variable
- Can’t titrate
- Reversal is tough
- Recovery time may be prolonged
Why is oral sedation highly variable
dependent on absorption of GI mucosa
Recovery time of oral sedation is dependent on
metabolism of the drug
What are common pharmacologic classes of oral sedation meds
- Anti-histamines
- Benzodiazepines
- Sedative hypnotics
- Narcotics
Antihistamines used for oral sedation include
- Hydroxyzine
- diphenydramine (benadryl)
- promethazine (phenergan)
Benzos used for oral sedation are
- Diazepam (valium)
- Midazolam (versed)
What sedative hypnotic drug is used in oral sedation
chloral hydrate