BLS for Healthcare Provider (CPR) – 5 hrs.

BLS for Healthcare Provider (CPR) – 5 hrs.

Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016 Location: Room 500 (fifth floor), School of Health Professions EPS Duration of the Activity:

4:00 pm – 5:00 Registration: 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm Course

Tuition: $75.00 Dentist & Auxiliary Personnel Speaker: Mr. Luis Meléndez / Mr. Eduardo Pérez Course Description The American Heart Association designed the BLS for Healthcare Providers course to prepare a wide variety of healthcare professionals to recognize several life-threatening emergencies and to provide CPR, use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), and relieve choking in a safe, timely, and effective manner. The course includes adult, child and infant rescues skills in both the out-of-hospital and in-hospital settings. Course Objectives At the end of the BLS course participant will be able to: Cognitive Objectives:

• Describe the steps of CPR
• Describe the signs and actions for severe airway obstruction in the responsive and unresponsive victim.
• Describe the links in the chain of survival.
• Describe the sings of four common life threatening emergencies in adults.
• Activating the emergency response service.

Psychomotor Objectives:

• Activating the emergency response system.
• Giving breaths for adult, child, and infant victims.
• Giving compressions for adults, child, and infant victims.
• Performing 1-and-2 rescues CPRS for adults, child, and infant victims.
• Using an AED for victim’s > year of age.
• Relieving choking in the responsive and unresponsive victim of any age.

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Violence & Crime Prevention: Responsibility of Dental Health Providers with Interest in Social Justice and Ethics – 3 hrs.

Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 Location: Auditorium B-103 – UPR School of Dental Medicine Duration of the Activity:

6:00 pm – 7:00 Registration: 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Course

Tuition: $60.00 Dentist / $40.00 Auxiliary Personnel Speaker: Dr. Nydia E. Chévere / Mr. Anibal Santana Dr. Nydia E. Chévere, Born in Morovis, P.R. B.S. with major in Biology at UPR, Río Piedras Campus; Master in Public Health Education and Doctor in Public Health with major in Environmental Health from School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus. Actually works as Associate Professor at School of Dental Medicine. Mr. Anibal Santana Merced – Social Work Student Course Description Through this educational activity the participants will review their ethics and moral principles and the relationship of these in their work. After conducting an interview with an ex-convict and deliberating about the causes of violence and criminality, they should revise their prejudices and personal values on criminal behavior. Also they will be able to analyze how, as dental professionals, they could contribute to prevent violence and criminality in their community. Finally, they will evaluate themselves and think about how their commitment with ethical principles and social justice is part of their practice as dental professionals and role models for the general population. Learning Objectives

• Know some biological and genetic factors that could predispose some people to have violence and criminal behavior.
• Understand how social health determinants could promote or prevent antisocial behavior.
• Become aware and show more disposition to offer dental health care with an ethical and social justice perspective.

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Temporomandibular Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment – 3 hrs.

Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Location: Auditorium B-103 – UPR School of Dental Medicine Duration of the Activity:

6:00 pm – 7:00 Registration: 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Course

Tuition: $60.00 Dentist / $40.00 Auxiliary Personnel Speaker: Dr. Antonio U. Chardón Narváez Dr. Antonio U. Chardón narváez – Graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, School of Dental Medicine in 2006. He completed his graduate training in Prosthodontics at the Graduate Prosthodontics Program of the UPR-RCM, School of Dental Medicine in 2009. He is the past president of the Puerto Rico Prosthodontists Association. He has practices limited to Prosthodontics in Ponce and Humacao and is an Auxiliary Professor at the Graduate Prosthodontics Program at the UPR-RCM, School of Dental Medicine. He provides CE courses for both the School of Dental Medicine and the CCDPR. Course Description and Objectives This course will focus on providing a review of the anatomy of the temporomandibular joint and the muscles of mastication. Incidence and prevalence of TMD signs and symptoms will be discussed to familiarize the attendant with the most common indications of TMD in daily dental practice. Definition of initiating and perpetuating factors will be presented to aid in treatment and management. Finally, various ways to fabricate an interocclusal orthosis, as well as proper adjustment will be explained.