Managing Patients Taking Cardiovascular Medications and Respiratory or GI Illnesses

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February 7, 2021
Understanding the health-related factors that could affect a patient's dental treatment is essential for any dental hygienist. It allows him to understand better the risks associated with the treatment and how these risks could be managed to ensure its health and well-being. Accordingly, when a dental hygienist is necessitated to exercise caution in treatment, one of the instances is when the patient is taking cardiovascular and respiratory medications as well as other Gastro-Intestinal (GI) agents.
On the one hand, patients who have some cardiovascular diseases or treatment must be managed with care and caution. For example, those who have myocardial infarction must be advised to continue the treatment one month after its occurrence since it could increase the attack's recurrence CITATION Kam16 \l 1033 (Kamath, Kundabala, & Thomas, 2016). Additionally, patients with specific contraindications such as uncontrolled arrhythmias, congestive heart failure, and significant, uncontrolled hypert...