This course empowers the individual or dental team with the skills to recognise and have the competence to deal with medical emergencies common to dental practices including basic life support (CPR) and use of the AED and the administration of first-line drugs such as oxygen, adrenaline, glucose, glucagon, midazolam, GTN, aspirin, and salbutamol.

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Our highly qualified trainers will carry out a full equipment review and check all emergency medications at your practice in-line with the clinical BNF guidelines.

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Course programme:


The session takes approximately four hours and will include practical CPR training, together with recognition and management of medical emergencies most common to the dental practice.

You will be able to practice CPR with the manikins in your own dental chair. Hygienic CPR manikins will be provided by Sussex First Aid Courses for use during your training session. 

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• Basic life support – adult/child

• AED training - adult/child

• Airway management – airway adjuncts, BVM and suction

• Oxygen therapy

• Asthma

• Anaphylaxis

• Cardiac emergencies

• Epileptic seizures

• Hypoglycaemia

• Syncope

• Choking - adult/child/pregnancy 

• Team-based training incidents

• Administration of drugs in an emergency

• I.M - Inter-muscular training



Training will also include:

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Administering IM injections and the use of medical ampoules and administering common first line dental practice emergency drugs.

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This training is CPD verifiable, 4 points and certificates of attendance will be supplied in-line with GDC enhanced CPD guidelines, UK Resuscitation guidelines and The Core Skills Training Framework benchmark for content of statutory and mandatory training courses.