Record-keeping in intravenous sedation: Are we meeting the standards?

Abstract

As primary care dental services continue to offer conscious sedation in practice, this article presents the findings from a record-keeping audit carried out at a dental teaching hospital in the UK. National guidance was used to set out the gold standards for record-keeping. Various shortcomings in terms of documentation were identified. This article enables dental practitioners involved in dental sedation to review their own sedation record-keeping to meet current national standards and ultimately improve clinical practice and the quality of patient care.