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Airway and Mechanical Ventilation for the Critically Ill Patient
Continuing Education
Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: March 1, 2024
SCCM Product Code: AIR24ON 
ACE expiration date: March 1, 2027
Estimated time for activity completion: 4.25 hours
Software/Hardware and Internet Requirements
Review the software/hardware and internet requirements:
Learning Objectives
  • Recognize examination findings associated with difficult airway management
  • Practice essential airway and mechanical ventilation management skills
  • Identify the unique challenges of airway management
  • Review the indications, contraindications, and benefits of the various modes of ventilation
Target Audience

This continuing education activity is intended to meet the needs of all practitioners who care for critically ill patients, including: 

  • Advance practice nurses 
  • Anesthesiologists  
  • Nurses 
  • Physicians 
  • Physician assistants 
  • Respiratory care practitioners
Type of Activity
The online will provide general knowledge and teaching points via recorded lectures so learners can test their knowledge and determine how to apply the learned concepts into practice.
Competencies
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:
  • Medical knowledge 
  • Patient care 
  • Practice-based improvement and improvement 
Claiming Credit

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.

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

imageThe 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 Airway and Mechanical Ventilation for Critically Ill Patient activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 4.25 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 4.25 contact hours of continuing education credit. 
 

 

Module 

ACPE #

Credit Hours

Claim By Date

Overview of Airway Practice, Complications, and Outcomes

0236-0000-24-121-H01-P

0.25

3/1/2027

Intubation Medications

0236-0000-24-122-H01-P

0.50

3/1/2027

Direct Laryngoscopy and Videolaryngoscopy

0236-0000-24-123-H01-P

0.25

3/1/2027

Surgical Airways

0236-0000-24-124-H01-P

0.50

3/1/2027

Team- and Systems-Related Strategies for Improving Outcomes of Emergency Airway Management

0236-0000-24-125-H01-P

0.25

3/1/2027

Advanced Airway Techniques

0236-0000-24-126-H01-P

0.25

3/1/2027

Safe Mechanical Ventilation

0236-0000-24-127-H01-P

0.50

3/1/2027

Patient-Ventilator Dyssynchrony

0236-0000-24-128-H01-P

0.50

3/1/2027

Refractory Hypoxemia: Now What?

0236-0000-24-129-H01-P

0.25

3/1/2027

Heated High-Flow Nasal Cannula and Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation

0236-0000-24-130-H01-P

0.50

3/1/2027

Disease-Specific Strategies

0236-0000-24-131-H01-P

0.25

3/1/2027

Weaning the Difficult Patient

0236-0000-24-132-H01-P

0.25

3/1/2027

 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 4.25 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.  

SCCM Grievance Procedures Policy
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.
Planner and Faculty Disclosure Information

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 

Ed Bittner, MD, PhD, MSEd, FCCM
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

John J. Gallagher, CCNS, CCRN-K, DNP
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Consultant - Medtronic; Speaker - Medtronic

Kathleen Ward
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Theresa Woike
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Faculty

Ed Bittner, MD, PhD, MSEd, FCCM
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

John J. Gallagher, CCNS, CCRN-K, DNP
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Consultant - Medtronic; Speaker - Medtronic

John Hunninghake, MD
San Antonio Uniformed Services – BAMC
San Antonio, Texas, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Vikas Kumar, MD, CHSE
Augusta University Medical Center
Augusta, Georgia, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Michelle Rausen, MS, RRT, RRT-NPS
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Christopher R. Tainter, MD, RDMS, FCCM
Cooper University Hospital
Camden, New Jersey, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Daniel Dante Yeh, MD, FCCM
Ernest E. Moore Shock Trauma Center
Denver, Colorado, USA
Royalties – UpToDate; Consultant – Takeda Pharmaceuticals; Advisory Board – Takeda Pharmaceuticals

 

Summary
Availability: On-Demand
Expires on 03/01/2027
Credit Offered:
4.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit Credits
4.25 ACPE (Pharmacy) – Home Study Credits
4.25 CABN (Nursing) Credits
4.25 Certificate of Participation Credits
4.25 Physician Assistant Credits
Contains: 16 Courses
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