ACLS, PCS & GA Renewals

ACLS – PCS Sedation – GA renewals For Dentistry And Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

State Board Requirements:

Most states require refresher training every two years. Each state has guidelines for both didactic and/or clinical experiences. Check with your local State Board for the specific regulations in your state and we will make every effort to help you comply with their requirements.

The St. Joseph’s University Medical Center sponsored program in affiliation with and administered by ASAASD is a comprehensive multi-day review and re-certification program. Each day can be taken individually or in groups to achieve the requirements for your licensure. Lectures can be taken online with WebEX while the SIM Lab process is in person.

When all three days are taken together, each attendee will receive 24 hours CE credit for re-certification. The course is approved by the NJ State Board of Dentistry, 21-078

Click to download and print ACLS Recertification form brochure.

Click to download and print the Recertification Registration form.

Registration and payments are by mail/UPS/FEDEx (please, no credit cards)

Payable to: Dr. Portale, ASAASD, 555 Bergen Blvd, Ridgefield, NJ 07657

Costs

Recognizing that each doctor may have different needs, we offer each day as a separate 8-hr program at separate fees:

Day 1 – $300 Sedation Review Lectures (WebEX)
Day 2 – $300 Sedation Review Lectures (WebEX)
Day 3 – $850 Team Simulations (limited attendance)
- Staff members $250 each

2024 Schedule

Day 1 – Monday April 29, 2024 or October 21,2024
Day 2 – Tuesday April 30,2024 or October 22, 2024
Day 3- Friday, May 3, SIM Lab in AM, Lectures PM or Friday November 1. 2024
in person only, staff alowed, limited to 3 per office.

Description:

Days 1 & 2 are WebEX attendance of Monday and Tuesday sedation lectures

Day 3 is SIM Lab in the morning, lectures in the afternnon

Monday, April 29, 2024 (or Monday October 21, 2024)

8 – 9 am	Introduction & Registration	Drs. Ephros & Portale
9 – 11:00 am	Pre-Anesthesia Evaluation	Dr. Szumita
11- 11:15 am	Break
11:15 – 12:15 pm	Anesthesia Treatment Planning	Dr. Szumita
Noon – 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm	Moderate Conscious Sedation & Oral Mode	Dr. Portale
2:15 – 2:30	Break
2:30 – 5:00	Airway Management in Deep Sedaton	Dr. DeFalco

Day 2 Tuesday April 30, 2024 (or Tuesday, October 22, 2024)

8 – 9 am	Risk Management for dentists using sedation	Ebony Riley, Esq
9 – 10:30 am	Introduction to IV sedation: monitoring, agents and tehniques	Dr. Ephros
10:30 – 10:45 am	Break
10:45 – noon	Inhalation (N2O) and other routes of sedation	Dr. Ephros
12:00 – 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 pm	Opioids: risk, benifits and issues	Dr. Ephros
3:00 – 3:15 pm	Break
3:15 – 5:00 pm	Sedation for the substance using patient	Dr. Ephros

Friday May 3, 2024 (or October 25, 2024)

8 – Noon : SIM Lab	Team Dynamics, Advanced Airway and Emergency Management In Simulation Lab, Laryngoscopy, McGath, AED, MI recognition	Dr. Upadya and SimLab staff
Noon	Lunch
1 – 3 PM	Anesthesia Emergencies/M&M Cases	Dr. Ephros
3 – 4 pm	EKG Review / Dysrhythmia Recognition	Dr. Ephros

8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

SIM Lab exclusively, limited attendance available to doctors and up to three clinical staff members per practice, could include the following:

Acute asthma
Chest pain
Seizure
Severe allergic reaction
Altered consciousness
Dysrhythmia
Bradycardia, hypotension
Angioedema
Foreign body
Laryngospasm

Welcome to another renewal year with an October 31st deadline for acquiring anesthesia credits to renew sedation and GA certificates. St. Joseph’s is proudly sponsoring a review course in affiliation with, and with administrative support from the ASAASD. We have two dates this spring set aside. On Friday, May 3, 2024, a limited attendance hands-on session in the Simulation Lab will include advanced airway training and team management of anesthesia-related urgencies and emergencies. This four-hour morning session will be followed by an afternoon of in-person didactic presentations. On Monday, April 29th, and Tuesday April 30th we will provide a two full days of didactics presented virtually. This is a total of 24 anesthesia CE hours and NJ Board approval is pending. Please see the proposed schedule below:

Proposed program for OMS and sedation dentists for anesthesia credits towards renewal

Faculty

PCS Recertify Form

Specifically, the program will include 4.0 hours of SIMLab for the doctors with their team, -afternoon: the assistant lectures are the assistant’s role in pre-anesthesia assessment, infection control for dental and oral surgery sedation, airway complications, team management of anesthetic emergencies, enhancing patient safety and satisfaction; the morning SIMLab : EKG review and dysrhythmia treatment, identifying the difficult airway, pharmacology of sedation agents, interactions to consider with sedation and post treatment pain management;

Hilly Ephros, DMD, MD, Program Director OMS and Chairman, Department of Dentistry and OMS, SJUMC
Rick Szumita, DDS, Associate Program Director OMS and Associate Chairman, Department of Dentistry and OMS, SJUMC
Pam Upadya, MD, Associate Program Director Anesthesiology Residency and Director of Simulation, SJUMC
Keah Buck, Director Risk/Claims Management and Ebony Riley, Esq, Associate Counsel, SJUMC
Joe Dyl, Manager, Simulation Lab

SIMLab stations: airway basics, cardiac arrest, emergence delirium or seizure, over sedation/respiratory depression, MI, etc.

ACLS Recertify Form

The ACLS recertify program will be instructed by AHA ACLS instructor Jim Gurriell and Rob Gurriell. You must bring your current BLS card and a passing grade Pre-assessment Test – click below to take the test.

ACLS-precourse-self-assessment

Fees

The WEBex lectures are $300 each.

The SIM Lab is $850 for Friday AM SIM and PM lectres.

The ACLS weekend is $500.

Cancelation policy

The SIM Lab is limited attendance so any cancellation within 30 days will result in loss of half of the course fee.

If cancellation occurs prior to that deadline, a $35 administrative fee will be assessed.