Presenter: Mark Donaldson, BSP, RPH, PHARMD, FASHP, FACHE
Date: Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM PT | 7:00 PM CT | 8:00 PM ET
Commercial Supporter: Vitalert Kit
Cost: $0.00
Location: Online Webinar
Credit Hours: 1Live CEU

Course Description

Medical emergencies are an unavoidable part of dental practice. Most can be prevented with proper anesthesia and stress management, but every office must be ready with an emergency drug kit—especially with epinephrine.
Epinephrine is the primary treatment for anaphylaxis, but auto-injectors have barriers such as incorrect use, needle fear, short shelf-life, and limited access. A new intranasal spray formulation helps overcome these challenges by offering a safer, more effective, and economical alternative. This course updates the dental team on the latest data and delivery methods for epinephrine, from past practices to future innovations

Learning Objectives
After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Recognize the most common medical emergencies in the dental office.

• Identify the seven essential drugs. Required in the minimal dental emergency kit.

• Learn the pitfalls of some of our historical emergency drug dosage formulations.

• Compare available epinephrine products approved for use in anaphylaxis.

• Review the proper use and administration of an epinephrine formulation delivered as a nasal spray.

Dr. Mark Donaldson is a Clinical Professor at the University of Montana, Clinical Associate Professor at the Oregon Health & Sciences University, and affiliate faculty in Dentistry at UBC. He serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of the American Dental Association and is the 2016 recipient of the Academy of General Dentistry’s Dr. Thaddeus Weclew Award. He has lectured internationally to both dental and medical practitioners, focusing on dental pharmacology and therapeutics.