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Sedation Practitioner Advance Sedation
Born in Germany, Dr Rabenstein graduated from University College Cork in Ireland in 1990 before embarking on a career in hospital anaesthesia spanning more than 30 years across Ireland and the UK. He went on to gain Membership and Fellowship qualifications from the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland, as well as completing both an MD and a Master’s degree through research.
Alongside his hospital career, Dr Rabenstein has developed a particular passion for conscious sedation in community medical and dental settings. He has been providing dental sedation for adults and children since 2010 and considers this one of the most rewarding aspects of his work. Conscious sedation can make an enormous difference for people who experience severe dental anxiety or phobia, as well as those with complex backgrounds or traumatic childhood experiences that may otherwise make accessing medical or dental care extremely difficult.
Dr Rabenstein has a strong academic and research interest in making sedation as safe, effective and accessible as possible. He pioneered the routine use of supplemental oxygen from portable oxygen concentrators during sedation and has been an early adopter of remimazolam and Penthrox, newer sedation options that have broadened the approaches available to patients and clinicians.
As a neurodivergent clinician himself, Dr Rabenstein has a particular understanding of the challenges that autistic people and ADHDers can experience when accessing healthcare. His personal insight, combined with his extensive clinical experience, enables him to relate particularly well to neurodivergent clients and to tailor their care to their individual needs. He continues to undertake research, publish and advocate in this area.
Teaching and professional development have also remained important throughout his career. Dr Rabenstein is a former council member of the Association of Dental Anaesthetists (ADA), now the Association of Dental Anaesthetists and Sedationists (ADAS). He is fully trained in advanced life support for both adults and children and has also worked as a Medical Appraiser within the NHS.
Above all, Dr Rabenstein believes that fear, past experiences or neurodivergence should not prevent anyone from receiving the medical or dental care they need. His approach combines decades of anaesthetic expertise with an individual, understanding and compassionate approach to sedation.
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