PODCAST: Atraumatic Dental Emergencies part I

“This learning material is sourced from Emergency Medicine Cases  and has been published here with permission as per creative commons copyright”  Here’s the problem: About 1% of all visits to the ED are for dental complaints, yet most of us have little training on how to recognize and manage dental emergencies. There are a multitude of reasons to explain the hoards of dental patients showing up in our EDs, not to mention the cost of seeing a dentist. Regardless, we need to know how to recognize and manage dental emergencies to best take care of our patients. After some suggestions from listeners and various colleagues to do an episode on dental emergencies, and learning more about dental emergencies myself, I realized, that the simple algorithm I apply to most patients I see in the ED with atraumatic dental pain  – doesn’t look like deep space infection or something I can drain -> analgesics + antibiotics -> send to dentist, was inadequate. In this Part 1 of our 2-part podcast series on dental emergencies, with the help of Dr. Chris Nash and Dr. Richard Ngo, we tackle these atraumatic dental emergencies: infections ranging from dental caries to pulpitis and gingivitis to dental abscess, cellulitis and deep space infection, as well as acute necrotizing gingivitis, pericoronitis and dry socket. These all have specific clinical characteristics and require specific management… Podcast production, sound design & editing by Anton Helman; voice editing by Braedon Paul. Background research by Ronak Saluja & Ryan O’Reilly Written Summary and blog post by Anton Helman August, 2023 Cite this podcast as: Helman, A. Ngo, R. Nash, R. Atraumatic Dental Emergencies. Emergency Medicine Cases. August, 2023. https://emergencymedicinecases.com/atraumatic-dental-emergencies. Accessed September 14, 2023 RÉSUMÉS EM CASES