Dental emergencies Cases in Dental Clinics In Kingdome of Saudi Arabia: Review

Abstract

Background:
patients, In although the reports course have of indicated performing that dental such procedures,
events dentists are may not experience very unexpected frequent. health Therefore, conditions
the of aim the of the study was to determine the rate of medical emergencies in dental clinics in
Saudi Arabia and to assess the readiness of cities the in dentists Saudi in Arabia managing in the
medical year emergencies 2024
Methodology:
This The research study was participants conducted were in dentists different who major were residing
in Saudi Arabia whether they are Saudi or non-Saudi nationals. To collect data, a pretested equestionnaire
sampling was and used the in data data were collection. collected The from data 404
collection participants.
Results:
was Out made of through the (51.5%) a total, were non-probability 208 males and 196 (48.5%) were
females. The frequency of the medical emergencies in the dental clinics was observed to be 74.8%.
The most common emergency reported was vasovagal syncope (43.8%). The study also revealed that
most of the dentists (85. 6%) always 5% obtained of medical the history dentists of always the took
patient vital while signs 95. of the patient with prior medical history. Concerning the availability of
a written emergency protocol in the clinics, 64. 6% of the participants responded affirmatively while
46. 8% indicated that they had a periodic mock emergency drill. Only 21% of the clinics had no
emergency equipment while 18. 3 % of the clinics had no essential emergency drugs in their dental
clinic.
Conclusion: The review of the preparedness of the dentists for the management of the medical
emergencies showed that the overall preparedness was good. fairly A slight positive change was also
seen in the tendency of practicing a periodic mock emergency drill in the dental clinics.