OSCE Flashcards
Upper removable appliance components
Active component
Retention
Anchorage
Baseplate
What information would you give to a patient who smokes tobacco but is considering switching to e-cigarettes
- e-cigs are 95% less harmful
- lack of evidence so consider other forms e.g. patches
Emergency drugs (only stunning men are getting actual girls)
- oxygen
- salbutamol
- midazolam
- adrenaline
- GTN spray
- Aspirin
- Glucagon
oxygen conc for an unwell patient
15l/min
Warfarin mechanism of action
inhibits coagulation by vitamin K antagonism
Max INR for extraction in Scotland
3.5
Warfarin interactions
- metronidazole and ibuprofen increase effect
- carbamazepine inhibits
- don’t use NSAID’S as anti platelet effects increase bleeding time
Smoking cessation - 5As
- ask
- advise
- assess
- assist
- arrange follow up
Caries risk assessment components
- MH
- Fluoride
- Oral hygiene
- clinical assessment
- diet
- saliva
- social history
What should be included in a diet diary?
- everything eaten and when over the course of 3 days
- 1 weekend day and 2 week days
fitting a removal appliance - steps
- ensure right patient and right appliance
- ensure appliance matches description
- check for sharp edges
- integrity of wire
- fits into mouth without blanching/trauma
- posterior retention
- anterior retention
- activate active component
- demonstrate correct removal procedure for appliance and ask patient to do it
- book review appointment
instructions to pt after delivering removable appliance
- will feel big and bulky initially - will get used to it
- may be mild discomfort - indicates it is working
- will impinge on speak - practice reading aloud
- may drool especially first 24 hours
- wear all the time especially meal times
- Clean after every meal
- remove and store for contact and active sports
- non-compliance significantly increases treatment time
- avoid sticky hard foods and fizzy drinks
- be cautious with hot food and drinks
- emergency contact number
Retentive component used for molars
Adams clasp 0.7mm HSSW
Retentive component used for incisors
Southend clasp 0.7mm HSSW
Post-op instructions following extraction
- expect pain - recommend analgesia for 1-3 days
- bleeding unlikely but possibe
- avoid exercise that day
- do not explore socket with tongue - can disrupt clot
- avoid hard or hot foods
- pt still numb - hot foods
- avoid alcohol for 24 hours
- do not rinse out for several hours or until the next day
- rinse around 4 times a day especially after eating
Medical Emergency assessment
ABCDE
- Airway
- breathing
- circulation
- disability
- exposure
Anaphylaxis treatment
- IM injection adrenaline 1:1000, 0.5mg
- only if life threatening
Angina treatment
- 400micrograms GTN spray
- 300mg aspiring crushed or chewed if MI
asthma treatment
- salbutamol inhaler 100micrograms per actuation