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Plenary Session
Thought Leader Session

Continuing Education


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Online accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: April 18, 2022
SCCM Product Code: CON22
RT Credit Deadline: June 12, 2022
ACE expiration date: April 21, 2023
Estimated time for activity completion: 142 hours MDs, RNs, 53.25 RT, 38.5 Dietician, 88.5 ACPE


Learning Objectives

  • Apply new knowledge and strategies to optimize the care of critically ill patients 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
  • Translate research from bench to bedside

Claiming Credit

You can access course materials and posttests, complete your evaluation, and claim your ACE credit by logging in to your MySCCM account with your SCCM Customer ID and password, then clicking on the icon for the course you are enrolled in 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 enduring educational activity for a maximum of 142 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Physicians should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity.

Nurses: The 2022 Critical Care Congress activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 142 contact hours.

ACPE Pharmacists: The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This enduring educational activity provides up to 88.5 contact hours of continuing education credit. 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 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 Physician Assistants accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 142 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.

Dieticians: Application has been submitted to the Commission on Dietetic Registration for up to 38.5 continuing professional education (CPE) units.  

Performance Indicators
10.2.2 Works collaboratively with interdisciplinary team to identify and implement valid and reliable nutrition assessment tools to support access to care.
4.1.1 Demonstrates effective problem solving and professional judgment to address a need.
4.1.2 Interprets and integrates evidence-based research and literature in decision making.
4.1.5 Recognizes situations where services provided to a customer should be adjusted, limited, modified or discontinued.

Learning Need Codes
5170: Critical care, trauma
5440: Enteral and parenteral nutrition support
1070: Leadership, critical and strategic thinking
1000: Professional skills

PLEASE NOTE: All CPE credits must be claimed and the overall Congress evaluation completed (including the submission of your CPE number and date of birth) by April 21, 2023. After this date, credits may not be accepted.

Respiratory therapists: The application for credit for the 2022 Critical Care Congress has been submitted to the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) for up to 53.25 continuing education contact hours for respiratory therapists.

PLEASE NOTE: All respiratory therapist credits must be claimed and the overall Congress evaluation completed (including the submission of your American Association of Respiratory Care (AARC) number and date of birth) by June 12, 2022. After this date, credits may not be accepted.

Maintenance of Certification

Successful completion of this accredited continuing education (ACE) activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 147 medical knowledge maintenance of certification (MOC) points in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), American Board of Anesthesia (ABA), and American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)  and the American Board of Surgery (ABS) 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 ABIM MOC credit. ABS requires participants to self-report credit if audited. 

This course meets the requirements for maintenance of certification (MOC) for up to 147.5 credits.

Disclosures

The content of this activity has been peer reviewed and has been 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
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kwame A. Akuamoah-Boateng, DNP, MSN, RN
Lead – ACSS Division APP
Virginia Commonwealth University Health
Barboursville, Virginia
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Earnest Alexander, Jr., PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
Assistant Director, Clinical Pharmacy Services
Tampa General Hospital
Tampa, Florida
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Sheila A. Alexander, BSN, PhD, RN, FCCM
Associate Professor of Nursing and Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
McKees Rock, Pennsylvania
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

Javier Amador-Castaneda, BS, RRT
Registered Respiratory Therapist
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Edgewater, New Jersey
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

Rajit (Raj) Basu, MD, MS, FCCM
Associate Professor of Medicine, College of Medicine
Mayo Graduate School of Medicine
Rochester, Minnesota
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Barbara A. Birriel, PhD, ACNP-BC, FCCM
Assistant Research Professor
Pennsylvania State University
Hershey, Pennsylvania
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Mitchell S. Buckley, PharmD, BCCCP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Banner University Medical Center Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Marilyn N. Bulloch, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM
Dept. of Pharmacy Practice
Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy
Kimberly, Alabama
Speakers Bureau - Genetech

Cherylee W.J. Chang, MD, FACP, FNCS, FCCM
Professor; Division Chief, Neurocritical Care
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kevin K. Chung, MD, FCCM
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
McLean, Virginia
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
Royalties - UpToDate

Rhonda L. D'Agostino, ACNP, FCCM
Mount Saint Mary College
Middletown, New York
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Jose J. Diaz, Jr., CNS, MD, FACS
Surgery Quality Officer, Professor, and Chief Acute Care Surgery
UMMC, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Baltimore, Maryland
Consultant – Acumed/Acute Innovation

Jose L. Diaz-Gomez, MD, FASE, FCCM
Chief, Cardiothoracic, MCS, and Transplant Critical Care Section
Baylor Saint Luke’s Medical Center
Bellaire, Texas
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

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

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

Lillian Liang Emlet, MD, MS, FCCM
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Annette M. Esper, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Medicine
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia
Researcher – Honeywell, and Siemens Healthineers

Laura E. Evans, MD, MS, MSc, FCCM
Medical Director of Critical Care
University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, Washington
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

Madison Fratzke, BSRT, RRT, RRT-ACCS
Registered Respiratory Therapist
University of Virginia Medical Center
Barboursville, Virginia
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Antonio Joao Gandra D'Almeida, MD, MDM, FACS, FCCM
Coimbra Military Health Center
Portugal, Spain
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

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

Steven M. Hollenberg, MD, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, New Jersey
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Craig Steven Jabaley, MD, FCCM
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia
Advisor – Trevena Inc

Jason M. Kane, MD, MS, FCCM
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Chicago Medical Center Comer Children's Hospital
Chicago, Illinois
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Ashish K. Khanna, MD, FCCP, FASA, FCCM
Anesthesiologist & Intensivist, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

Meghan B. Lane-Fall, MD, MS, FCCM
Associate Professor
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

Niels D. Martin, MD, FCCM
Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Consultant - Caption Health, Alexion/Astra Zeneca, Nestle, FloBio

Ryan C. Maves, MD, FCCM
Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Consultant – Trauma Insights, LLC; Researcher – AiCuris, Sound Pharmaceuticals

Diane C. McLaughlin, DNP, AGACNP-BC, CCR
APRN
Mayo Clinic Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Heather Meissen, DNP, ACNP, CCRN, FCCM
Emory Healthcare
Fayetteville, Georgia
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
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

Chet A. Morrison, MD, FACS, FCCM
Associate Professor of Surgery and Critical Care
Central Michigan University School of Medicine
Saginaw, Michigan
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Jodi E. Mullen, BSN, FCCM
Senior Quality Improvement Specialist
UF Health Shands Hospital
Gainesville, Florida
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Ndidi L. Musa, MD, FCCM
Physician
Seattle Children's Hospital
Anchorage, Alaska
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
Medical Director of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
Saint Luke’s Hospital
Kansas City, Missouri
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

Michael Nurok, MBChB, PhD, FCCM
Director, Cardiac Surgery ICU
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California
Advisor – AvantGarde Health, Inc

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

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

Paul O'Donnell, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS
Associate Professor of Pharmacy; Critical Care Pharmacist
Midwestern University
Chicago, Illinois
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

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

Peter S. Sandor, MBA, PA-C, RRT
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center
North Haven, Connecticut
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Babak Sarani, MD, FACS, FCCM
Professor of Surgery and Emergency Medicine
George Washington University
Great Falls, Virginia
Consultant – Acumed, LLC

Ulrich Schmidt, MD, PhD, FCCM
Professor of Anesthesiology
UC San Diego Health
San Diego, California
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Gilbert Seda, Jr., MD, PhD, FCCM
Critical Care Physician
Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista
La Mesa, California
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

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

Steven L. Shein, MD, FCCM
Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Cleveland, Ohio
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Corinna Sicoutris, ACNP, MSN, FCCM
Director of Advanced Practice
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

Vijay Srinivasan, MD, MBBS, FCCM
Associate Professor, Attending Physician
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Jacqueline Y. Steuer, ACNP, CCRN, MSN, RN
Manager Critical Care Services APN Team
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
Waukegan, Illinois
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Robert David Stevens, MD, FCCM
Director
John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Consultant - Edwards Life Science

Rom A. Stevens, MD, FCCM
Anesthesiologist – Intensivist
Advocate Aurora Health Care
Head Park, Illinois
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Tamas Szakmany, MD, PhD, FCCM
Consultant in Intensive Care
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Baltimore, Maryland
Speaker – ThermoFisher Ltd

Beth Taylor, DCN, RD-AP, FCCM
Research Scientist
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Maryville, Illinois
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

Michel Torbey, MD, MPH, FNCS
Chairman, Neurology Department
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

John J. Whitcomb, PhD, RN, CCRN, FCCM
Professor and Director Undergraduate Programs
Clemson University School of Nursing
Williamston, South Carolina
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Daniel Wu, DO, FACOS
Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Jerry J. Zimmerman, MD, PhD, FCCM
Visiting Research Fellow
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Researcher – Immunexpress; Royalties – Elsevier Publishing

Faculty

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