Online continuing medical education (CME) release date: November 15, 2021 CME expiration date: December 31, 2022 Estimated time for activity completion: 4.5 hours
This self-directed course is designed to prepare healthcare providers caring for unstable, critically ill or injured patients to disseminate the basic critical care concepts to all professionals who may be called upon to care for the critically ill.
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:
This activity will focus on increasing knowledge on all aspects of care and applying this knowledge to practice settings.
You can access course materials, attend a live Q&A session on December 15, 2021, complete your evaluation, and claim your CME 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 4.5 AMA PRA Category 1 credit™. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity.
Nurses: The Advanced Critical Care Ultrasound activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 4.5 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 4.5 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 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 4.5 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.
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:
Erin F. Barreto, PharmD, MSc, FCCM Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, USA No financial relationships Ken Tegtmeyer, MD, FAAP, FCCM Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, Ohio, USA No financial relationships Cristina Fetila Society of Critical Care Medicine Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA No Disclosures
Faculty:
Mahamoud A. Ammar, PharmDYale New Have HospitalNew Have, CTNo financial relationships
Jen-Ting Chen, MDMontefiore Medical CenterBrooklyn, NYServed on the Gilead Medical Affairs Sentinel Panel on COVID
Breanna Hetland, BSN, CCRN-K, PhDUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center – College of NursingOmaha, NEDeveloped software application with funding from the American Nurses Foundation and American Association of Critical Care Nurses
Sarah Hoehn, MDUniversity of Chicago Comer Children’s HospitalChicago, IL No financial relationships
Ryan C. Maves, MDWake Forest School of MedicineWinston-Salem, NCMD Serono - member, advisory panel in 2020 (completed, no longer serving) Heron Therapeutics - member, independent review committee for clinical trial support
Kadhiresan R. Murugappan, MDHarvard Medical SchoolBoston, MANo financial relationships
Tricia R. Pendergrast, MANo financial relationships