Seymour Dental Blog

Medical Emergency in the Dental Practice 2025 – Defibrillator and Heart Rhythm

Is the defibrillator the answer to a perceived cardiac arrest?  No, doing continual chest compressions is the answer. Remember, the brain restarts the heart ...

Mind, Body, Mouth, it’s all connected. Dental Health Week 2023 – Heart

Emergency Medical Training 2016 – Part 2 – Heart Attack

Heart Attack A heart attack occurs when a blood clot blocks one of the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle. The medical term for a heart attack is acute myoca ...

Medical Emergencies in the Dental Practice 2024 – Anaphylaxis and Adrenaline – Part 3

Adrenaline is an example of how the body uses one hormone (and medication) to achieve multiple effects in the body.  We use adrenaline in everyday dentistry. It’ ...

Medical Emergencies in the Dental Practice 2024 – Why CPR? – Part 2

You never know when you learn something new. In amongst all the knowledge and training for medical emergencies, is the crucial reason for all of it.  Keep the brain aliv ...

Medical Emergencies in the Dental Practice 2024 – Part 1

Every year we spend a Friday morning 9am-2pm learning of the change in handling a medical emergency in a dental practice. Remember, a dental practice starts from the fron ...