Cases & conditions
Cases and conditions
Unusual cases, precautions, and the management of difficult situations — written at the level of the condition and the decision.
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Know your drugs
Who should not have IV sedation in an office
Sorted by the reason rather than alphabetically, because the reasons behave differently — some move the patient to a hospital, some move the appointment, and some are not about the patient at all.
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Know your drugs
Who should not have nitrous
Nitrous has two separate mechanisms of harm, and the standard contraindication list covers only one of them well.
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Know your drugs
How much local anesthetic is too much
Which standard you are working from, the cartridge conversion, fractional limits when agents are mixed, and which of the two ceilings you reach first, and why that changes with the drug, the standard and the patient.
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Conditions
What "dental clearance" actually asks for
Before radiotherapy, chemotherapy, antiresorptives, transplant and joint replacement — and why the same request means five different things.