Final Revision Flashcards
How can you protect yourself, your patients and your colleagues?
by being immunized against diseases where vaccines are available
ex: Hepatitis B
Which is the single most effective way to prevent the spread of infection?
hand washing routinely AFTER every clinical examination
Hand wash with:
soiled hands:
dirty hands:
soiled hands: soap and water
dirty hands: soap and water OR alcohol based rub/gel
What you should always do when contact with blood, mucous membranes or non –intact skin?
Always wear surgical gloves
What is S O C R A T E S?
- Site
- Onset
- Character
- Radiation
- Associated symptoms
- Timing
- Exacerbating + relieving factors
- Severity
What are the vital signs on the form?
BP, Pulse, Tm
Normal Tm:
35.8 - 37.2 degrees celsius
How to measure the Tm?
digital thermometer under the tongue, or external auditory meatus or Forehead area
Examination sequence for Arterial pulses from radial a:
- Place the pads of your 3 middle fingers over the right radial a
- Assess rate, rhythm and vol
- Count pulse rate over 15sec and multiply by 4 to obtain the bpm
Examination sequence Blood Pressure:
- patient seated or lying down
- can measure over thin clothing
- sphygmomanometer cuff to the upper arm, with the center of the bladder over the brachial a
- palpate the brachial pulse
- Inflate the cuff until the pulse is impalpable
- listen through the diaphragm of the stethoscope
- Deflate the cuff slowly
- Continue to deflate the cuff slowly until the sounds disappear
- Record the pressure at which the sounds completely disappear as the diastolic pressure
What do you examine in oral cavity examination?
mouth opening lips buccal mucosa tongue soft and hard palate uvula tonsils and pillars teeth, gums and alveolar margins stensens/parotid duct
Angina is a symptom of what?
ischemic heart disease
Angina results from what?
coronary disease
-not enought O2 supply
Which the aetiology of angina?
progressive narrowing or spasm of one/more coronary a
What are the symptoms of angina?
- heavy pressure
- radiates to left shoulder, arm and mandibular region
- intense sense of not breathing good
- nausea
- sweating
- bradycardia
When does the discomfort typically disappear?
- once the myocardial work requirements are lowered
* the oxygen supply to the heart muscle is increased
Which are the preventing measures?
- begin with taking a careful history of patient’s angina
- ask patient about the events that precipitate angina
- frequency, duration, severity of angina
- response to medications or diminactivity
- patient’s physician can be consulted about the patient’s cardiac status
When can you do an ambulatory surgery of an angina patient?
- if it arises only during moderately vigorous exertion
- if it responds readily to rest and oral nitroglycerin administration
- if no recent increase in severity
When the elective surgery should be postponed?
- if angina episodes occur with only minimal exertion
- if several doses of nitroglycerin needed to relieve chest discomfort
- if the patient has unstable angina
Controversy w/ angina patients:
for local anesthetics but benefits outweigh the risks
When does Myocardial infarction occur?
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- when ischemia causes myocardial cellular dysfunction and death
- when an area of coronary artery narrowing has a clot form that blocks all or most blood flow
When can you have a surgical procedure if you had Myocardial infarction?
at least 6 months after an infarction
The advent of thrombolytic-based treatment strategies and improved MI care make automatic 6-month wait to do dental work unnecessary
SOS T OR F
Pacemakers pose no contraindications to oral surgery and no evidence exists that shows the need for antibiotic prophylaxis
true
What are the symptoms of congestive heart failure?
paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea
ankle edema
What is Orthopnea?
=respiratory disorder that exhibits shortness of breath when the patient is supine
-use of several pillows to upper body
What is Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea?
=respiratory difficulty 1/2 h after lying down
-Patients suddenly awake awhile after lying down to sleep feeling short of breath and are compelled to sit up to try to catch their breath.
Patients with asthma should be questioned about:
- precipitating factors
- frequency and severity of attacks
- medications used
- response to medications
When Elective oral surgery is best undertaken?
the day AFTER a dialysis treatment has been performed
What drugs does the patient require for surgery after renal / other organ transplantation?
corticosteroids
supplemental corticosteroids in the perioperative period
Hypertension:
=chronically elevated blood pressure for which the cause is unknown
Mild to moderate hypertension:
is usually not a problem in the performance of ambulatory oral surgical care
Elective oral surgery for patients with severe hypertension should be:
Emergency oral surgery in severe hypertensive patients should be:
postponed until the pressure is better controlled
performed in a well-controlled environment or in the hospital so that the patient can be carefully monitored during surgery and acute blood pressure control subsequently arranged
When surgical procedure is planned, is it best to err on the side of hyperglycemia or hypoglycaemia?
hyperglycemia so is best to avoid an excessive insulin dose and to give a glucose source
What happens if signs of hypoglycaemia-hypotension, hunger, drowsiness, nausea, diaphoresis, tachycardia or a mood change occur?
an oral or IV supply of glucose should be administered
Ppl with well-controlled diabetes are:
Ppl with uncontrolled diabetes:
no more susceptible to infections than are persons without diabetes
have more significant difficulty in containing infections
What should be deferred in patients with uncontrolled diabetes until control is accomplished?
elective oral surgery
-may also give prophylactic antibiotics routinely to patients with diabetes undergoing any surgical procedure
Hyperthyroidism - symptoms of a thyrotoxic crisis?
restlessness, nausea, abdominal cramps, high fever, diaphoresis, tachycardia, and cardiac decompensation, death
Patients left untreated or incompletely treated can have a thyrotoxic crisis caused by the sudden release of large quantities of preformed thyroid hormones
Hereditary coagulopathies:
prolonged bleeding after the extraction of a tooth may be the first evidence that a bleeding disorder exists
-all patients should be questioned concerning prolonged bleeding after previous injuries and surgery
- epistaxis (nosebleeds)
- easy bruising hematuria
- heavy menstrual bleeding
- spontaneous bleeding
Which is the best method to standardize PT values within and between hospitals?
How to measure the anticoagulant effect of Warfarin?
INR
Quantitative problem:
Qualitative problem:
below 50 000/ mm3
higher than 50 000/ mm3
Platelet counts under 20 000/ mm3 usually require:
- presurgical platelet transfusion or
* a delay in surgery until platelet numbers rise
Patients taking heparin usually can have their surgery:
DELAYED UNTIL circulating heparin is INACTIVE
-otherwise use Protamine sulfate
SOS
Myocardial oxygen demand can be increased by:
anxiety
exertion
relaxing
anxiety
exertion
When should patients stop taking warfarin?
2 / 3d before the planned surgery
On the morning of surgery the INR value should be:
- If it is b/w 2 -3 INR: routine oral surgery
- If the PT is still greater than 3 INR, surgery should be delayed until the PT fall to 2 INR
-will allow the INR to drop to about 2
Defer surgery until the platelet-inhibiting drugs:
- have been stopped for 3 days
- on the day after surgery if no bleeding is present
Techniques of local anesthesia for oral and maxillofacial surgery:
- Topical anesthesia,
- Infiltration anesthesia,
- Regional block anesthesia
Topical anesthesia:
-on oral mucosa
-prior to local anesthetic injections in the mouth
to lessen the discomfort needle penetration
- creams,
- ointments and
- sprays
Most commonly used as topical anesthetics in the mouth are:
lidocaine
benzocaine
Infiltration anesthesia is useful in providing:
- localized skin and mucosal anesthesia
* anesthesia for some teeth and part of the jaws
Infiltration anesthesia is done in:
It is the technique of choice
- in maxilla for dental pulp
- in children mandible for dental pulp of deciduous teeth
- in mandible for incisors
ADV of Slow injection:
- reduce discomfort
- increase success
- may lessen the effects of systemic problems
The infiltration local anesthesia allows:
- 45 min for anesthesia of pulps
* soft tissue anesthesia is longer (1.5-2)
Mandibular nerve block anesthesia:
a. Inferior alveolar n block
b. Mental n block
c. Buccal n block
d. Lingual n block
Maxillary nerve block anesthesia:
a. Infra orbital n block
b. Nasopalatine n block
c. Greater palatine n block
d. Anterior superior alveolar n block
e. Middle superior alveolar n block
f. Posterior superior alveolar n block
Inferior alveolar n block anesthetizes:
- teeth on same side of mandible
- mandibular bone to midline
- soft tissues of lower lip to midline
- gingiva from premolars to midline
- lingual nerve
- buccal nerve
- Halstead method
- pterygo-temporal space
- in the region of the mandibular foramen
Inferior alveolar n block technique:
- thumb on coronoid notch
- contralateral to lower premolar
- needle height: halfway of operator’s thumb nail
- until bone is contacted
- 1.5-2 ml of solution
When long-acting solutions are employed anesthesia of the teeth can last for:
6-8 hours
Mental nerve block anesthetizes:
- teeth and jaw from premolars anteriorly
- soft tissues of lower lip and chin to midline on one side
Mental alveolar n block technique:
- inserted at depth of B sulcus b/w premolars
- below premolar apices
- 1.5 ml of solution
How is Buccal n block anesthetized?
-B gingiva and mucosa and part of the cheek in the mandibular molar region
-can be anesthetized by either:
B infiltration
Regional block
Infraorbital nerve block:
intraoral or the extraoralsides
Infraorbital nerve block intraoral approach involves:
inserting a long needle high into the buccal sulcus between the premolar teeth and advancing towards the infraorbital foramen which is being palpated extraorallyby the operator’s non-syringe hand
-1-1,5ml of solution
Infraorbital nerve block anesthetizes:
•teeth and bone from P2 - I1 •gingiva adjacent to these teeth •mucosal and skin surfaces of one half of the upper lip •part of skin on lateral nose aspect •ant sup alveolar n block
Nasopalatine nerve block anesthetizes:
hard palate tissues adjacent to incisors bilaterally
- 0.2-0.5 ml of solution
- incisive papilla
Greater palatine nerve block
- palate soft tissues from foramen anteriorly to canine
- 0.5 ml of solution
Duration of anesthesia is not as long as with mandibular blocks:
Indeed both palatal infiltration and blocks provide a similar duration of around 45 minutes of soft tissue anesthesia
Anterior superior alveolar nerve block anesthetizes:
- maxillary I and C on one side of jaw
- infraorbital n block or buccal infiltration
Middle superior alveolar nerve block anesthetizes:
- buccal infiltration of P2 apex
- maxillary premolar pulps and MB pulp of the maxillary M1
Posterior superior alveolar nerve block anesthetizes:
maxillary M and bone and B gingiva associated
Intrapulpal anesthesia:
- exposure of the tooth pulp
- key to success is delivery of solution under pressure
- anesthetize one pulp canal of a multirooted tooth
- needle fitting tightly the pulpal exposure by advancement of the needle into pulp canal
Local anesthetic drugs:
in current use: amides
allergic to amides: esters
-benzoxaine and tetracaine (rare)
2 major differences b/w esters and amides:
- metabolism (hepatic metabolism amides except Articaine which is in plasma, esters in plasma)
- allergies
Conventional agents:
Long-acting agents:
- Conventional agents for better operative anesthesia
* Long-acting agents for postoperative pain control, in combination with general anesthesia