{"id":998,"date":"2017-09-06T06:48:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T05:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/?p=998"},"modified":"2024-04-23T09:48:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T08:48:41","slug":"medical-emergencies-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/medical-emergencies-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Emergencies Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Brightside Dental, all our team members are committed to ongoing learning and training. We recently had our annual basic life support and medical emergencies training. It&#8217;s a CQC requirement for us to refresh and update our knowledge in this area every year. Also, from a practice and personal point of view it&#8217;s very useful as fortunately, we experience very few medical emergencies in the practice.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-999\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR3-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CPR in the dental chair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What we also do on a regular basis in team meetings is to role play medical emergencies so that we all know what to do in such a situation and that&#8217;s probably the closest we can get other than a real life situation.<\/p>\n<p>We have a range of equipment and drugs as recommended by the British Resuscitation Council, to assist in all major emergencies. We also have a defibrillator in the practice, which if ever needed could have a huge impact on someone who has had a heart attack or stopped breathing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1003 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR2-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR2-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR2-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR2-1-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR2-1.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1005\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1005 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR1-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR1-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR1-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR1-1-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CPR1-1.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiring work!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Brightside Dental, all our team members are committed to ongoing learning and training. We recently had our annual basic life support and medical emergencies training. It&#8217;s a CQC requirement for us to refresh and update our knowledge in this area every year. Also, from a practice and personal point of view it&#8217;s very useful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/medical-emergencies-training\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medical Emergencies Training<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}