Role Reversals: MICUs Become SICUs and SICUs Become MICUs in a Disaster

Bonus CE Session

CE: 1.0

Bonus CE Session Moderator(s)

Michael Cheatham, MD, FCCM

Chief Surgical Officer
Orlando Health
Orlando, Florida

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

This session will cover how to optimize resources and staff in an ICU during a disaster. Speakers will discuss cross-training medical ICU clinicians for surgical ICUs and vice versa, optimizing advanced practitioners as force multipliers, and ways to mitigate medication errors.

Learning Objectives:

Discuss preparations for crossing ICU teams or patients into a different critical care specialty area based on surge capacity needs in a disaster
Discuss how to surge advanced practitioners into a different critical care specialty area based on their experience or past training
Discuss how to implement systems to prevent medication errors when patients and/or critical care specialists are crossed to a different critical care specialty area

Presentations:

Optimizing APs in the ICU in a Disaster
Bonus CE Session Faculty: Jonathan Messing, ACNP, BSN, CCRN, MSN – Inova Health System
Role Reversal in the ICU
Bonus CE Session Faculty: Jaspal Singh, MD, MS, FCCM – Carolinas Medical Center
Role Reversal in the ICU and Medication Errors
Bonus CE Session Faculty: Lesly V. Jurado, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP – New Hanover Regional Medical Center