C.E. Credit Worksheet

November 2022 CDA Continuing Education Worksheet

This worksheet provides readers an opportunity to review C.E. questions for the article “Management of Hypertensive Crisis in a Dental School: 10-year Retrospective Review of Medical Emergency Incidents With Recommendations” before taking the C.E. test online. You must first be registered at cdapresents360.com. To take the test online, click here. This activity counts as 0.5 of Core C.E..

1. Which of the following statements apply to this study? (mark all that apply)

a. It analyzed medical emergency calls made at Loma Linda University School of Dentistry over a 10-year period.

b. It identified hypertension (HTN) as the most common reason for an emergency call.

c. It proposed updated patient management guidelines for HTN.

d. It recommended that the revised HTN treatment guideline could assist dental providers to determine when to call EMS or when to consider medical consultation of HTN patients.

2. The authors used which of the following methods for their study? (mark all that apply)

a. Medical emergency incident data from January 2012 to October 2021 in which an internal or in-house medical emergency call was made.

b. Data was summarized by type and frequency of medical emergency calls and then analyzed.

c. Additional information was collected from patients’ electronic health records and analyzed, including age, gender, history of hypertension and whether they were transported to the ER.

d. All of the above.

3. True or False: Hypertension (HTN) was identified as the most common medical emergency at a rate of more than twice the next most common emergency complaint.

4. Which of the following emergencies was the second most frequent reason for an emergency call from the LLUSD clinic?

a. Anxiety.

b. Fainting.

c. Low blood sugar.

d. Dizziness.

e. Swallowing a foreign object.

5. What was the percentage of people who had an HTN-related emergency call at LLUSD but had not reported a history of HTN?

a. 12%

b. 17%

c. 23%

d. 27%

e. 30%

6. The authors state that errors in measurement of blood pressure (BP) are common and note that which of the following should be evaluated for possible influence on BP readings (mark all that apply):

a. Poor measurement technique.

b. Dental anxiety.

c. White coat hypertension.

d. Failure to take prescribed medication.

e. All of the above.

7. True or False: Analysis of emergency call data determined that asymptomatic or nonemergent HTN calls were more prevalent than symptomatic calls.

8. Which of the following are risk factors for HTN? (mark all that apply):

a. Age.

b. Gender.

c. Obesity.

d. Race.

e. Diabetes.

f. Tobacco use.

g. Dyslipidemia.

9. True or False: A 2021 study evaluating the effectiveness of emergency training showed that there was no difference between the resident group who received simulation-based medical emergency curriculum and the resident group in a control.

10. True or False: The condition under which the authors’ proposed guidelines recommend that only emergency dental care be provided and a medical consult be obtained before proceeding with dental treatment is when a patient’s systolic BP is 161-180 or their diastolic BP is 100-120 and medical risk factors are present.