Continuing Education

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Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: January 19, 2024
SCCM Product Code: CON24
ACE expiration date: February 1, 2025
Estimated time for activity completion: Precourses up to 10 credit hours per day for MD, PA, RN, PharmD; Precourses RT up to 12.5 credit hours per day; Congress up to 17 hours total for MD, PA, RN, PharmD, and for RT up to 13.75 hours total

Learning Objectives

• Apply new knowledge and strategies to optimize the care of the critically ill patient as provided by the multiprofessional team
• Examine evidence-based medicine techniques to evaluate and improve patient care
• Review and integrate guidelines to measure performance and identify areas for further study and improvement

Target Audience
This continuing education activity is intended to meet the needs of all practitioners who care for critically ill patients, including:

• Advanced practice nurses
• Anesthesiologists
• Clinical nurse specialists
• Clinical pharmacists
• Critical care educators
• Dietitians
• Emergency department physicians
• Family practice physicians
• ICU medical directors
• ICU nurse managers
• Internists
• In-training professionals
• Neurologists
• Neurosurgeons
• Nurses, adult and pediatric
• Pharmacists
• Physicians
• Physician assistants
• Respiratory care practitioners
• Research scientists
• Trauma surgeons
• Other critical care practitioners

Type of Activity
This activity includes elements that increase knowledge, application, and practice for the multiprofessional team members.

SCCM Statement on Opioids
The use of opioids for pain management includes the potential risks of addiction, abuse, and misuse of these drugs as patients transition out of the controlled ICU environment.

Competencies
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) supports recommendations that will promote lifelong learning through continuing education. SCCM promotes activities that encourage the highest quality in education that will enhance knowledge, competence, or performance in critical care practice. This activity will meet the following competencies:

• Quality improvement and patient safety
• Patient- and family-centered care
• Clinical knowledge
• Communication
• Multiprofessionalism and teamwork
• Translation of research from bench to bedside

Claiming Credit
You can access course materials, complete evaluations, and claim ACE credit and/or MOC points by logging in to your MySCCM account with your SCCM Customer ID and password, then clicking the icon for the course in which you are enrolled under the MyLearning tab. If needed, you can click "Forgot my password" to reset your secure password.

Credit Hours

Physicians:
Accreditation Statement: The Society of Critical Care Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation Statement: The Society of Critical Care Medicine designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 17.75 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Physicians should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity.

The American Osteopathic Association (AOA) automatically recognizes AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ as AOA Category 2 credit. You may report by uploading your transcript via the AOA CME Self-Reporting Tool (login required) or by emailing attachments to cme@ostopathic.org.

The ACCME credits that physicians earn from this activity will be submitted to ACCME’s CME Passport, a free, centralized web application where you can create a personalized account to view, track, and generate transcripts of your reported ACCME credit. Visit www.cmepassport.org to create your account.

Nurses: The 2024 SCCM Critical Care Congress activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 17.75 contact hours.

Pharmacists: The Society of Critical Care Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This educational activity provides up to 17.75 contact hours of continuing education credit.

PLEASE NOTE: To claim LIVE credits, credits from each session must be claimed by March 19, 2024. View ACPE numbers.

SCCM reports to a continuing pharmacy education (CPE) tracking service, CPE Monitor, which will authenticate and store data for completed CPE units received by pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. The tracking system will make CPE data for each participant available to the state boards of pharmacy where the participant is licensed or registered. After CPE units are processed by the ACPE and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will be able to log in to a comprehensive electronic profile to access information about their completed CPE.

Physician Assistants: The American Academy of Physicians Assistants (AAPA) accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 17.75 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.

Respiratory Therapists: The application for the 2024 SCCM Critical Care Congress has been approved by the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) for up to 13.75 continuing education contact hours for respiratory therapists. Only the Airway and Mechanical Ventilation Management for the Critically Ill Patient (12.5 hours) and the Leadership and Management Skills to Enhance Your Professional Role (7.5 hours) precourses have been approved.

PLEASE NOTE: All respiratory therapist credits must be claimed and the overall program name evaluation completed (including the submission of your AARC # and date of birth) by January 21, 2025. After this date, credits may not be accepted.

Maintenance of Certification
Successful completion of this accredited continuing education (ACE) activity, which includes the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 17.75 medical knowledge maintenance of certification (MOC) points in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), American Board of Anesthesia (ABA), American Board of Surgery (ABS), and American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) MOC programs. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of ACE credits claimed for the activity. It is the ACE activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting MOC credit.

This course meets the requirements for MOC for up to 17.75 credits.

The MOC credits that physicians earn from this activity will be submitted to ACCME’s CME Passport, a free, centralized web application where you can create a personalized account to view, track, and generate transcripts of your reported ACCME credit. Visit www.cmepassport.org to create your account.

SCCM Grievance Procedures Policy
To provide due process in the evaluation and mediation of grievances concerning ACE activities, this grievance procedures policy was developed. Grievances may concern, but are not limited to, the awarding of credit for individual participation and/or registration fees issues.

• A written complaint or grievance should be submitted to the Education Department.
• The Education Department will attempt to resolve the grievance of the complainant.
• If the initial response is unsatisfactory to the complainant, the matter will be referred to the chief executive officer (CEO)/executive vice-president (EVP) for action.
• If the response from the CEO/EVP is unsatisfactory to the complainant, the matter will be referred to the SCCM Executive Committee. The ruling of the Executive Committee will be final.

Disclosures
The content of this activity has been peer reviewed and approved for compliance. The faculty and contributors have indicated the following financial relationships, which have been resolved through an established conflict-of-interest resolution process and have stated that these reported relationships will not have any impact on their ability to provide unbiased content.

Planners:
Enyo Ablordeppey, MD, MPH, FACEP, FCCM
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kwame A. Akuamoah-Boateng, DNP, ACNP-BC, FCCM
Lead APP, Division of Acute Care Surgical Services
University Teaching Hospital of Butare
Butare, Rwanda
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Gil B. Allen, MD, FCCM
Director, Adult Critical Care Services
University of Vermont Medical Center
Burlington, Vermont, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Erin F. Barreto, PharmD, MSc, FCCM
Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Consultant – FAST Biomedical, Wolters Kluwer

Rajit Basu, MD, MS, FCCM
Division Head of Critical Care Medicine
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Consultant – BioMerieux, BioPorto Diagnostics, Potrero

Utpal S. Bhalala, MD, FCCM
Medical Director
HCA Healthcare
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

William T. Browne, MD, FCCM
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Nibras F. Bughrara, MD, FASA, FCCM
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery
Albany Medical College
Albany, New York, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Marilyn N. Bulloch, PharmD, BCPS, SPP, FCCM
Associate Clinical Professor and Director of Strategic Operations
Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy
Auburn, Alabama, USA
Advisory Board – Shionogi (terminated)

David L. Carpenter, PA-C, JM, FCCM
Co-Director, Quality and Patient Safety
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Michael J. Connor Jr, MD
Associate Professor, Critical Care Medicine & Nephrology
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Consultant – Vifor Pharma, Inc.

Deepali Dixit, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCM
Clinical Associate Professor
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Jeremiah J. Duby, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCM
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Critical Care
University of California Davis Medical Center
Davis, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Amy L. Dzierba, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
Critical Care Pharmacist
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
New York, New York, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Timothy J. Ellender, BSN, MD, FCCM
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Indiana University – IU Health Methodist Hospital
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Brenda M. Engler, ACNP, BS, CCRN, DNP
Geisinger Medical Center Danville
Danville, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Annette M. Esper, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Medicine
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Researcher – Honeywell, Immuneexpress (terminated), Siemens Healthineers (terminated)

Laura E. Evans, MD, MSc, FCCM
Professor
University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, Washington, USA
Scientific Advisory Board – Endpoint Health

Elizabeth A. Farrington, PharmD, BCNSP, BCPS, FCCM
Clinical Associate Professor
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Madison Fratzke, BSRT, RRT, RRT-ACCS
Registered Respiratory Therapist
University of Virginia Medical Center
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Consultant – Fisher & Paykel

Samantha Gambles Farr, APRN, CCRN, MSN
UC San Diego Health System
San Diego, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Antonio Joao Gandra D'Almeida, MD, MDM, FACS, FCCM
Instituto Nacional de Emergencia Medica
Lisboa, Portugal
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Carrie L. Griffiths, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
Associate Professor, Virtual Critical Care
Wingate University School of Pharmacy
Wingate, North Carolina, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Payal K. Gurnani, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCM
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Cardiovascular ICU
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
Houston, Texas
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Leslie A. Hamilton, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCP, FNCS, FCCM
Associate Professor
University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Vitaly Herasevich, MD, PhD, FCCM
Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Steven M. Hollenberg, MD, FACC, FAHA, FCCP, FCCM
Professor of Medicine, Director Cardiac Intensive Care
Emory Heart and Vascular Institute
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Craig S. Jabaley, MD, FCCM
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Randeep S. Jawa, MD, FCCM
Professor of Clinical Surgery
Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Stony Brook, New York, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kunal Karamchandani, MD, FCCP, FCCM
Associate Professor Anesthesiology and Critical Care
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, USA
Advisor – Eagle Pharmaceuticals (terminated)

Ashish K. Khanna, MD, FCCP, FASA, FCCM
Anesthesiologist & Intensivist, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Advisory Board –  Medtronic, Inc, Philips Healthcare; Consultant – Edward Life Sciences, GE Healthcare, Medtronic, Trevena; Clinical Trial Investigator – Edwards Life Sciences; Consultant – Edwards Life Sciences; Researcher – Edwards Life Sciences; Scientific Advisory Board – Philips Healthcare

Keith Killu, MD, FCCM
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Tyree H. Kiser, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
Professor
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Audra Kubilius
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Michael J. Lanspa, MD, MS, FCCM
Director, Critical Care Echocardiography Services
Intermountain Medical Center
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Jong O. Lee, MD, FACS, FCCM
Professor of Surgery
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Niels D. Martin, MD, FCCM
Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Advisory Board – AstraZeneca; Clinical Trial Investigator – AstraZeneca; Consultant - Nestle, FloBio

Ryan C. Maves, MD, FCCM
Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Grants Support – AiCuris, GeoVax, Sound Pharmaceuticals; Advisory Board – Shionogi; Consultant – Trauma Insights, LLC (terminated)

Diane C. McLaughlin, AGACNP-BC, DNP, FCCM
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Mayo Clinic Florida
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Emily M. McRae, ACNP, CPNP, DNP, FCCM
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

William S. Miles, MD, FCCM
Director of Surgical Critical Care Outreach, Co-Director NeuroSurgical ICU
Carolinas Medical Center
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Paul K. Mohabir, MD, FCCM
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Linda L. Morris, BSN, CCNS, MSN, PhD, FCCM
Clinical Nurse Specialist/Respiratory Care
Trach Resource
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Royalties – Tracheostomies: The Complete Guide

Jodi E. Mullen, MS, CCRN-K, CCNS, FCCM
Senior Quality Improvement Specialist
UF Health Shands Hospital
Gainesville, Florida, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Ndidi L. Musa, MD, FCCM
Physician
Seattle Children's Hospital
Seattle, Washington, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Lama Nazer, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
King Hussein Cancer Center
Amman, Jordan
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Sean A. Nix, DO, FACOS, FACS, FCCM
Medical Director of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
Saint Luke’s Hospital
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Christa/Hana Nobleza, MD, MSCI
Medical Director
Baptist Memorial Hospital/University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Frank M. O'Connell, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Staff Anesthesiologist
AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center
Yardley, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Tessie W. October, MD, MPH
Medical Officer
National Institutes of Health
Washington DC, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Keith M. Olsen, PharmD, FCCM
Professor of Pharmacy
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Yves Ouellette, MD, PhD, FCCM
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Tina L. Palmieri, MD, MCCM
Assistant Chief of Burns: Division Chief
Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California
Sacramento, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Richard M. Pino, MD, PhD, FCCM
Professor and Head, Department of Anesthesiology
LSU Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Jose Javier Provencio, MD, FCCM
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Consultant – Minnetronix, Inc

Michelle Rausen, BS, MS, RRT, RRT-NPS
Technical Director, Respiratory Therapy
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kenneth E. Remy, MD, MSc, MSCI, FCCM
Associate Professor
Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Owner/Co-owner – Immune Functional Diagnostics

Alexandre T. Rotta, MD, FCCM
Chief, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Advisor – Breas US; Consultant – Vapotherm, Inc; Royalties – Elsevier

Babak Sarani, MD, FACS, FCCM
Professor of Surgery and Emergency Medicine
George Washington University
Washington DC, USA
Consultant – Acumed, LLC, Belmont, Haemonetics, Medtronics; Speaker/Honoraria – Acumed/Acute Innovations, Belmont, Haemonetics

Nneka O. Sederstrom, MPH, PhD, FCCM
Chief Health Equity Officer
Hennepin Healthcare
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Michael G.S. Shashaty, MD, MS, MSCE, FCCM
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Steven L. Shein, MD, FCCM
Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Speaker/Honoraria - Ceribell

Corinna Sicoutris, ACNP, MSN, FCCM
Director of Advanced Practice
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Advisory Board – Pennsylvania Alliance of Advanced Practice Leaders

Roshni Sreedharan, MD, FASA, FCCM
Anesthesiologist
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Vijay Srinivasan, MD, MBBS, FCCM
Associate Professor, Attending Physician
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta - Egleston Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Robert D. Stevens, MD, FCCM
Director
John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Consultant - Edwards Life Science(terminated); Advisor – Bsecur, Ceribell, PAPRA AG

Tamas Szakmany, MD, PhD, FCCM
Consultant in Intensive Care
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Newport, United Kingdom
Board Member – ICNARC; Speaker – ThermoFisher Ltd; Advisory Board – Paion UK, LTD (terminated)

Donna Tanner, RRT, MBA, RRT-ACCS
Clinical Program Manager, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Ken Tegtmeyer, MD, FAAP, FCCM
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kathleen B. To, MD, FACS, FCCM
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Maryland Medical Center, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Quincy K. Tran, MD, PhD, FCCM
Associate Professor
University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Scott L. Weiss, MD, FCCM
Attending Physician, Critical Care Medicine
Nemours Children’s Hospital
Wilmington, Delaware, US
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Julie M. Winkle, MD, FCCM, FACEP
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, Colorado, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Daniel Wu, DO, FACOS, FACS, FCCM
Trinity Health St. Mary Medical Center
Langhorne, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Faculty:
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