Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: April 3, 2023
SCCM Product Code: ADVPHARM23ON
ACE expiration date: December 31, 2024
Estimated time for activity completion: 16 hours

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• Review the pharmacotherapeutic management of critical care-specific conditions
• Apply new knowledge and integrate guidelines to solve pharmacotherapy problems pertinent to patient care in the critically ill population
• Identify valuable practice, technologic, and administrative resources for further advancement of knowledge and practice in contemporary critical care topics

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

You can access the pretest, course materials, and posttest; 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.  

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 16 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 2023 Advanced Pharmacotherapy in Critical Care Course Online activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 16 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 16 contact hours of continuing education credit.
(0236-0000-23-109-H01-P)

This course also offers Board of Critical Care Pharmacy (BCCCP) credit of up to 16 hours.

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 Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (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 16 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 15 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) 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 15 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.

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:
Nicole M. Palm, PharmD, BCCCP
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Anne R.T. Brown, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Dawn Herman, MBA, BSN
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Faculty:
Jerry Altshuler, PharmD, BCCCP
Mount Sinai West
New York, New York, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Nicholas Barker, PharmD, RPh, BCCCP
Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Erin F. Barreto, MSc, PharmD, FCCM
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Consultant: Wolters-Kluwer UpToDate

Anne R.T. Brown, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Jeffrey Bruno, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS
MD Anderson Cancer Care Center
Houston, Texas, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Sandeep Devabhakthuni, PharmD, BCCP
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Paul P. Dobesh, PharmD, BCCP
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Consultant: Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer/BMS Alliance, Scientific Advisory Board: Janssen Pharmaceuticals

Christ Donaldson, PharmD, BCCCP
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Jeremiah J. Duby, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS
University of California Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Laura M. Ebbitt, PharmD, BCCCP
University of Kentucky HealthCare
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Andrew C. Faust, PharmD, BCPS
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas
Dallas, Texas, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Christine Groth, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester
Rochester, New York, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Mojdeh Heavner, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Nicole M. Palm, PharmD, BCCCP
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

William J. Peppard, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM
Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Janelle O’Keeffe Poyant, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Tufts Medical Center
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Melissa Thompson Bastin, PharmD, PhD, BCCCP
University of Kentucky Healthcare
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Speaker/Honoraria: Baxter, Fresenius Kabi

Andrea P. Tully, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Christiana Care Health System
Newark, Delaware, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Patrick M. Wieruszewski, PharmD, BCCCP
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Rachel C. Wolfe, PharmD, BCCCP
Barnes Jewish Hospital
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose