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Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: August 10, 2026 

SCCM Product Code: ADVPHARM26ON

ACE expiration date: August 10, 2029 

Estimated time for activity completion: 14.25 hours 

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• Apply evidence-based pharmacotherapy principles to assess and optimize medication therapy for critically ill patients with complex hemodynamic, neurologic, renal, hepatic, and toxicologic conditions.
• Evaluate clinical evidence, guideline recommendations, and emerging therapeutic strategies to support medication-related decision-making in high-risk critical care scenarios.
• Develop patient-centered pharmacotherapeutic plans that incorporate medication safety, stewardship principles, and individualized risk-benefit assessment to improve outcomes in critically ill patients.
• Analyze opportunities to apply protocols, clinical decision support tools, and quality improvement strategies to promote safe and effective medication use in critical care practice.

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: 

• Adaptability and flexibility
• Patient-centered care
• 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.  

By registering for and completing this continuing medical education activity, I give permission to the Society of Critical care Medicine to share my accredited continuing education (ACE) completion information and related personal information (e.g. name, National Provider Identifier, birthdate MM/DD) with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) for inclusion in my CME Passport transcript and, potentially, reporting to my certifying and licensing bodies and any other regulatory authority that I specify. 

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 14.25 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 Advanced Pharmacology In Critical Care Online activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 14.25 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 14.25 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 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. 

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 14.25 medical knowledge maintenance of certification (MOC) points in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), American Board of Anesthesia (ABA) redesigned Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®, American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) Lifelong Learning (CME. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of ACE credits claimed for the activity.

This course meets the requirements for MOC for up to 14.25 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 Chief Executive Officer (CEO)/Executive Vice President (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 mitigated 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: 

Kaitlin Alexander, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM

University of Florida College of Pharmacy

Gainesville, Florida, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Judah Brown, BCCCP, PharmD

New York Presbyterian Hospital – Columbia University Medical Center

New York, New York, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Elizabeth Munroe, MD, MSc

Intermountain Health

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kirsten Nadler, MS, AAIP

Society of Critical Care Medicine

Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Nicole Palm, BCCCP, PharmD, FCCM

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Angela Slampak-Cindric, BCCCP, BCPS, PharmD, FCCM

Geisinger Medical Center

Danville, Pennsylvania, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Michael Vest, DO, FCCM

Christiana Care Health System

Wilmington, Delaware, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Faculty: 

Lolade Bakare, PharmD

University of Florida College of Pharmacy

Gainesville, Florida, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Stephanie Bass, PharmD

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Advisory Board: InflaRx; Speakers Bureau: Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals

Hannah Brinkman, PharmD, BCCCP

Mayo Clinic Hospital

Rochester, Minnesota, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Frank Dicker, MD

Washington University

Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Jacob Jentzer, MD

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Amy Kiskaddon, PharmD, MBA, FCCM

John Hopkins University School of Medicine/Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Consultant: CMP Pharma Inc; Steering Committee: Boehringer Ingelheim

Jesse Rungkiwattanakul, PharmD, BCPS, FNKF

Howard University College of Pharmacy

Washington DC, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Joanna Stollings, PharmD

Vanderbilt University Center

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, FCCM

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Andrew Webb, PharmD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Consultant: Acasti Pharma, Inc

Patrick M. Wieruszewski, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Consultant: Wolters Kluwer, UpToDate, Viatris, Inc.; Research Grant: Zoll Foundation

Victoria L. Williams, PharmD, BCCCP

The Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Reviewers:

Raniah Aljadeed, PharmD BCPS

King Saud University Medical City

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Anthony Hawkins, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM, FCCP

University of Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Speaker: Kabi USA; Advisory Board: Kabi USA

Trager Hintze, PharmD, BCCCP

Alice L. Walton School of Medicine

Bentonville, Arkansas, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Olivia Marchionda, PharmD

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kevin Mercer, PharmD, MPH

The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy

Austin, Texas, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Megan Musselman, PharmD, MS, BCCCP, BCEMP, BCPS, DPLA, FASHP, FCCP

NKC Health

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Alvin Sharma, MD

Geisinger

Dansville, Pennsylvania, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Bethany Shoulders, PharmD, BCCCP

University of Florida College of Pharmacy

Gainesville, Florida, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

George Urias, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

University of Florida Health Shands Hospital

Gainesville, Florida, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Jason Yerke, PharmD, BCCCP

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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