Dental immediate life support training for your practice team, delivered on-site
Full day · Up to 6 staff · Chairside scenarios with your own kit · Quoted for your team
Dental immediate life support is ILS training built around a dental practice: chairside scenarios using your own emergency drugs, oxygen and AED, including sedation-related emergencies. It's aligned with Resuscitation Council UK guidelines and runs for a full day at your practice, 09:30–16:30, for up to 6 of your team. Certificates are valid for one year. Quoted for your team.
- Scenarios at the dental chair, using your practice's own emergency kit
- Sedation-related emergencies included for sedation teams
- Aligned with Resuscitation Council UK guidelines
- Up to 6 staff, so everyone gets hands-on time
- Certificates emailed the next day
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Kasorb attended our dental practice to re certify our ILS training. The course was delivered fantastically and kept us well engaged with the course. Stephen Lawson the course tutor was super friendly, helpful at the practical scenarios and wasn’t all about pointing at a power point but it was there for us to refer too. He showed relevant videos that demonstrated his explanations.
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Compliance and certification
Staff receive a Kasorb certificate of completion, valid for one year, for your training file. The course is aligned with Resuscitation Council UK guidelines, and the training counts towards staff CPD. It isn't a regulated qualification.
4 reasons teams choose Kasorb for Dental Immediate Life Support Training
One price for the whole team
One price for the whole group of up to 6, not per person — quoted for your practice, with certificates included.
Training at your workplace
No travel planning, no separate venue booking and less disruption for your team on the day.
Run at your dental chair
Scenarios in your own surgery, with your emergency drugs, oxygen and AED.
Compliance handled properly
Attendance, certification and compliance paperwork are included after the course.
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Course specification
How it works
- Enquire with your postcode, group size and preferred dates. We'll come back with a price within 48 hours. We recommend booking at least four weeks in advance to secure your preferred date. If you need something sooner, just ask.
- Confirm the price and date, and tell us if your team provides conscious sedation, so the trainer can build it into the scenarios.
- Your trainer calls beforehand to confirm logistics and the emergency kit you'll use on the day.
- A full day, 09:30–16:30 (staff arrive 09:00): theory and skills, then chairside scenarios with your practice's own emergency drugs, oxygen and AED.
- Certificates are emailed the next day.
What the course covers
- Patient assessment and recognising deterioration
- Cardiac arrest management in the dental chair
- Airway management and oxygen
- Using your practice's AED
- Your emergency drugs kit, and when each drug is used
- Choking, anaphylaxis, seizures and hypoglycaemia in the surgery
- Sedation-related emergencies
- Teamwork, roles and communication during an emergency
- Reporting and debriefing after an emergency
Who needs this training
- Dentists
- Dental nurses
- Dental hygienists and therapists
- Practice teams providing conscious sedation
Staff should already hold in-date basic life support training.
We recommend at least Level 1 literacy and numeracy.
What the law says
Resuscitation Council UK's quality standards for primary dental care expect dental staff's resuscitation knowledge and skills to be updated at least annually, and the GDC expects all registrants to be trained in dealing with medical emergencies.
For teams providing conscious sedation, the Intercollegiate Advisory Committee for Sedation in Dentistry (IACSD) standards (2020) expect sedation practitioners to deliver immediate life support suited to the patient's age, with deployable airway skills including positive-pressure ventilation. They don't require a Resuscitation Council UK ILS course.
How we assess learning
Staff work through practical scenarios in your surgery, with feedback from the trainer, and complete a multiple-choice theory test.
Your trainer
Your trainer has used these skills for real, and runs the scenarios at your own dental chair with your practice's emergency kit — so your team practises with the equipment they'd reach for in a real emergency.
Logistics
- Room: horseshoe or classroom seating — what matters is clear floor space — plus a surgery for the chairside scenarios
- You provide: your practice's emergency drugs kit, oxygen and AED for the scenarios
- The trainer brings: manikins and all general training equipment
- Group size: up to 6, so everyone gets hands-on time
- Timing: 09:30–16:30; staff arrive at 09:00
- Access: the trainer needs the room 45 minutes before the start
- Anywhere in the UK, on-site
- Literacy: we recommend at least Level 1 literacy and numeracy
Cost explained
This course is quoted for your team. Tell us your postcode, group size and preferred dates, and we'll confirm the price within 48 hours. It's one price for the group, up to 6 staff — not per person — and it covers your trainer, their travel and the course materials.
More than 6 staff? We'll run another session at the same rate.
Several practices? Tell us when you enquire and we'll arrange them together.
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from your standard ILS course?
It covers the same immediate life support skills, aligned with Resuscitation Council UK guidelines, but runs at your dental chair with your own emergency drugs and kit, and includes sedation-related emergencies. Our immediate life support course is for healthcare teams in other settings.
How is it different from Medical Emergencies for Dental Practices?
Medical emergencies for dental practices is a four-hour whole-team session on the emergencies you're most likely to see, for up to 12. Dental ILS is a full day of immediate life support skills for up to 6, often for sedation teams.
Do staff need basic life support first?
Yes. Staff should hold in-date basic life support training.
We sedate children. Is this enough?
This course focuses on adult patients. If your team sedates children, they also need paediatric life support skills — see paediatric immediate life support.
Does it count towards CPD?
Yes. The training counts towards CPD, and staff can log it in their CPD records.
Can it be done online?
No. It's hands-on, so it's on-site at your practice.
How quickly can you come?
We confirm within 48 hours, and we recommend booking at least four weeks in advance to secure your preferred date. If you need something sooner, just ask.
Prefer to speak? Call 0207 112 8412