Taking Nothing for Granted: The Intersection of Risk Management & Local Anesthesia
Speaker
IN-PERSON PROGRAM: Learners may attend in-person at Penn Dental Medicine in the Lower Level Concourse, Room LL20A, **This program will not be recorded**
Dr. Robert Peskin graduated Dr. Robert M. Peskin was a member of the charter class to graduate from Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine. He subsequently completed General Practice and Dental Anesthesiology Residencies at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Since 1983, he has maintained a private dental anesthesiology practice devoted primarily to the management of the anxious, apprehensive, and special needs patient in Garden City, New York. In addition, he provides in-office anesthesia for other dentists throughout the Greater New York metropolitan area.
Dr. Peskin is a Diplomate of both the American and National Dental Boards of Anesthesiology and a Fellow of the American and International Colleges of Dentists, the Pierre Fauchard Academy, and the Academy of General Dentistry.
Dr. Peskin has published many original manuscripts and book chapters in the scientific literature. In addition, he lectures undergraduate dental students at the School of Dental Medicine at Stony Brook on a variety of anesthesia-related subjects, and has taught graduate dental hygienists at Farmingdale State University seeking certification in the use infiltration local anesthesia and nitrous oxide administration. He also lectures locally and nationally on a broad variety of continuing education topics of interest to practicing dentists.
Disclosure: Dr. Peskin is a paid lecturer on risk management for a major professional liability insurer.
Course Description
In this lecture, Dr. Peskin will present a case report and review of literature on the intersection of risk management and local anesthesia.
Educational Objectives
- Avoiding risk in a high-stakes practice environment -- a case report
- Recognizing local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST)
- Administration of local anesthesia in the presence of other co-morbidities
Contact
PDMContinuingEd@dental.upenn.edu