Introduce evidence-based knowledge essential for risk stratification of
patients and for the developing oral healthcare strategies commensurate with the
patients’ functional capacity.
Learning Objectives:
• Discuss the role of physical
evaluation in risk assessment
• Discuss the concept of functional capacity
and how to assess it in a clinical setting
• Discuss disease-related,
treatment-related, and procedure-related variables
Abstract:
Our primary obligation
and ultimate reasonability is the timely delivery of quality diagnostic,
preventive, and therapeutic services, within the bounds of the clinical
circumstances presented by patients. Consequently, we must possess knowledge and
skills essential to determine the functional state of patients to undergo and
respond to dental care. Diagnostic activities should be validated and
focused not only on identifying those problems that one cannot afford to
miss but also to identify those patients with an increased likelihood of
developing a disease and those who may experience an increase in disease
severity or a medical emergency in the perioperative period.
Course Outline:
I. Introduction: Never Treat a Stranger
1. Physical Evaluation
2.
Functional Capacity
II. Hidden Risk Factors
1. Disease-specific Risk Factors
2.
Treatment-specific Risk Factors
3. Procedure-specific Risk Factors
III. Conclusion
