Seymour Dental Blog

Medical Emergency in the Dental Practice 2025 – Anaphylaxis and Adrenaline

CALL THE AMBULANCE! Anaphylaxis is a fast-moving condition that needs to be monitored closely. The swelling and inflammatory response to the allergens (range from be ...
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 ...
Medical Emergency in the Dental Practice 2025 – Early Warning Signs – SCRPS

SCRPS This is a mnemonic for signs of perfusion. This is an early warning measure that all is not well. Basically, not getting enough passage of blood, a blood substitut ...
Blog Series – Medical Emergency Courses

Every year Roni, our first aid officer and Dr Seymour attend a medical emergency course to refresh our knowledge and to learn of any new developments. It is about a 5 h ...
Roni and medical emergency – Oximeter

Well it’s that time of year again where Dr Seymour and myself headed off to update our CPR skills. This time round we focused a little more on fainting patients and usi ...
Medical Emergency Course 2015

In January this year Roni (our first aid officer) and Dr Seymour with Caitlan (our relief nurse) attended this course run by Cynergex. This course covers topics that are ...