Rapid Hypnotic Techniques for Drug-Free Management of Pain and Anxiety

Credit Details
This electronically delivered self-instructional program is designated for 1.25 hours of CE credit by Farran Media.
AGD Code: 340.

The fee to view this course is $36. This cost includes the fee to take the exam and claim your CE credits.

Synopsis:
Based on extensive clinical trials and clinic practice, this presentation builds on 25 years of experience with nonpharmacologic means of managing patient anxiety and pain in busy healthcare environments. It documents the effects of unaddressed anxiety on pain, the interconnected experience of the patient and dental practitioner’s stress, and the economic ramifications. It addresses how the natural upward trend of pain and anxiety during these encounters can be avoided, and the patient experience improved by slight, but reflective, changes in provider behavior and use of language. The audience will learn how to build rapport with their patients instantly, elicit positive behaviors and cooperation from them and their accompanying individuals. Listeners will be introduced to the powers of word choice, how they can avoid the adverse effects of negative suggestions, reframe distressing thoughts, fears, and worries, and moderate the effect of painful stimuli. Rapid hypnotic techniques will be described and demonstrated with a sample script. The specifics of language providing anxiety release and relaxation in the office, as well as those needed for additional pain relief, will be discussed and supplemented with findings from a recent clinical trial at Tufts Dental School.

Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Rapidly establish rapport with distressed patients
• Understand how an increase in anxiety and pain over the duration of the visit can be avoided
• Better recognize and avoid negative suggestions
• Consider at least three ways of reframing distressing thoughts
• Know how to reduce the impact of potentially painful stimuli
• Understand the principles of procedure hypnosis
• Understand factors that affect patient satisfaction and willingness to return to a practice

Description of Speaker:
Elvira V. Lang, MD, PhD, is an award-winning interventional radiologist known for research on the clinical effectiveness and cost savings of pre and intraprocedural nonpharmacologic analgesia adjuncts in the medical and dental domains. Founder and CEO of Comfort Talk®, she has held faculty positions at the University of Heidelberg, Stanford, Iowa, and the Harvard Medical School. In large-scale clinical trials, she demonstrated that staff training in advanced rapport and communication skills reduces pain, anxiety, drug needs, and complications in procedures, as well as improves patient throughput, efficiency, and the patient experience.

Through her publications and efforts as Past President of the New England Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis she has promoted to include training in hypnosis for frontline medical/dental healthcare professionals within the scope of their practice. Her research work has been acknowledged with the Ernest R. Hilgard Award for Scientific Excellence for a Lifetime of Published Experimental Work by the International Society of Clinical Hypnosis. After having co-authored the book Patient Sedation Without Medication for healthcare professionals she wrote Managing Your Medical Experience for patients’ use. Dr. Lang has been featured extensively in the popular press and on television.

Disclosure:
In the past 12 months, the lecturer/speaker declare that they have had a financial interest, arrangement or affiliation within the field of dentistry or health care with the following: Hypnalgesics, LLC d/b/a Comfort Talk®.

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