Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: January 23, 2023 SCCM Product Code: SWEB23AACE expiration date: May 1, 2024 Estimated time for activity completion: 1 hour
The target audience comprises physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and other HCPs who care for critically ill patients with HABP/VABP.
This is an online activity that will allow learners to improve the knowledge and competence of HCPs in optimizing individualized care and antimicrobial management for patients with HABP/VABP with suspected or documented antimicrobial resistance.
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:
You can access the course materials; 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.
Successful completion of this continuing medical education (CME) activity, which includes participation and a passing score of 70% (three attempts) on the posttest and completion of the overall evaluation, enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 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 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 credit™. Each physician 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 Pneumonia and Sepsis in Critical Care: Navigating a Complex Patient Diagnostic Workup activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 1.0 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 enduring educational activity provides up to 1.0 contact hours of continuing education credit.  
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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:AAPA 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 1.0 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.
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.
Planners: Amy L. Dzierba, PharmD, BCCCP Critical Care Pharmacist New York-Presbyterian Hospital New York, New York, USA No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Ashish K. Khanna, MD, FCCP, FASA, FCCM Anesthesiologist & Intensivist, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA Advisor – Retia Medical; Consultant – Edward Life Sciences, GE Healthcare, Medtronic, Philips North America, Potrero Medical; Researcher – Caretaker Medical, Edwards Life Sciences, Potrero Medical, Retia Medical
Faculty: Monica Donnelley, BCPS, PharmD, BCIDP Clinical Pharmacist, Infectious Diseases SpecialistUniversity of California Davis Medical Center Davis, California, USA No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Christian Sandrock, MD, MPH, FCCP University of California Davis Davis, California, USA Advisory Board: Abbvie, Paratek, Shionogi; Speaker/Honoraria: Abbvie, Merck, Paratek, Shionogi