Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: January 6, 2025 

SCCM Product Code: ULTRA25, ULTRA25ON

ACE expiration date: December 31, 2027 

Estimated time for activity completion: 9.75 hours 

• Demonstrate a foundation of ultrasound knowledge
• Practice acquisition of high-quality images via hands-on exercises
• Demonstrate image interpretation and utilization of ultrasound as a diagnostic tool

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

• Advance practice nurses
• Anesthesiologists
• Clinical nurse specialists
• Nurses
• Physicians
• Physician assistants
• Surgeons

This online activity is designed for clinicians to improve knowledge and competency as it relates to the use of bedside ultrasound. 

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
• Medical knowledge
• Practice-based learning
• Interpersonal communication skills

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 9.75 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 Ultrasound - Adult activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 9.75 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 9.75 Category 1 credits for completing this activity. 

Maintenance of Certification  

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 9.75 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),  and American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS) MOC programs. 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 9.75 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.

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 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.

Planners: 

Christopher Schott, MD, MS, RDMS, FACEP
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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

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

Faculty: 

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

Gilman Allen, MD, FCCM
University of Vermont Medical Center
Burlington, Vermont, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Sarah Bain, MD
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Arlington, Virgiinia, USA
Advisory Board and Consultant – FujiFilm Sonosite

Cameron Baston, MSc, MD

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Consulting fees – McGraw Hill, Sonosite; Royalties – McGraw Hill, Consultant - Sonosite

Becky Burk, MD
Renown Regional Medical Center
Reno, Nevada, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Vladyslav Dieiev, MD, MSc

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Siddharth Dugar, MD, FCCM
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Mark Foster, MD, MS, FACEP
UT Health San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Melissa Hazlitt, MA, MD, FACEP
Vassar Brothers Medical Center
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Lyle Gerety, MD
University of Vermont Medical Center
Burlington, Vermont, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Antonio Hernandez, MD, FCCM
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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

Jan Kasal, MD, FCCM
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

John C. Klick, MD, FCCM
University of Vermont Medical Center
Burlington, Vermont, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

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

Jai Madhok, MD, MS

Standford University School of Medicine

Standford, Connecticut, USA

Consultant - Sonologi

Diane C. McLaughlin, DNP, AGACNP-BC, CCRN
Mayo Clinic
Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Cristin Mount, MD, FCCM
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Ng Niu, ACNP, CCRN, CRNP
Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Govind Panda, MD, RDCS
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Pablo Perez d’Empaire, MD, FASE, FRCPC

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kristen Rahall, MSN, CRNP

VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Aarti Sarwal, MD, FCCM
Wake Forest Baptist Health Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Research Support – Butterfly Network, Inc (terminated), Image Monitoring; Consultant – Sheinkei, Inc., Stimdia, Inc.

Christopher Schott, MD, MS, RDMS, FACEP
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Daniel A. Sweeney, MD
University of California
La Jolla, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Carla Venegas, MD
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville

Jacksonville, Florida, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Bhola Vijai, MD
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia, 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