Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: December 6, 2022
SCCM Product Code: ECHOREV22
ACE expiration date: December 31, 2023 
Estimated time for activity completion: 24.5 hours 

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• Discuss relevant clinical topics and updates to increase knowledge base in critical care echocardiography
• Assess the scientific foundations and literature evidence for using echocardiography in critically ill patients
• Apply effective learning approaches, including case-based discussion and question review, to implement echocardiography in the critical care setting

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: 

• Professionalism
• Patient care and procedural skills
• Medical knowledge
• Practice-based learning and improvement
• Interpersonal and communication skills

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 24.5 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Physicians should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity.

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 Critical Care Echocardiography Review, 2022 activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 24.5 contact hours.  

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 24.5 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.

Successful completion of this accredited continuing education (ACE) activity, which includes participation and a passing score of 70% in the evaluation component/posttest, enables the participant to earn up to 24.5 medical knowledge maintenance of certification (MOC) points in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), American Board of Anesthesia (ABA), and 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 MOC for up to 24.5 credits.

CME Passport 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.

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 CEO/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.

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: 
Michael J. Lanspa, MD, MS, FASE, FCCM
Intermountain Medical Center
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Sara Nikravan, MD
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

Marcus Behrens, MD
University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, Washington, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Courtney Bennett, DO, FACC
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Alberto Goffi, MD
University of Toronto/St. Michael’s Hospital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Daniel W. Johnson, MD, FCCM
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

John Kotter, MD
University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

Vidya K. Rao, MD
Stanford Health Care
Stanford, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Lisa Rapoport, MD, MS
Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center
Santa Clara, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Vera Rigolin, MD, FASE
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Vincent L. Sorrell, MD, FACP, FACC, FASE
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Cynthia Taub, MBA, MD
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Brandon M. Wiley, MD, MS
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose