FCCS: Surgical Online Course (2026)
Continuing Education

Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: February 11, 2026
SCCM Product Code: FCCSSUON26
ACE expiration date: February 1, 2029
Estimated time for activity completion: 3 hours

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Learning Objectives
  • Summarize the fundamental principles of critical care in the surgical patient
  • Describe the initial management before critical care assistance or transfer
  • Identify clinical practices and system-level approaches that help reduce patient morbidity and prevent mortality
Target Audience

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

  • Advanced practice nurses
  • Anesthesiologists
  • Clinical nurse specialists
  • In-training practitioners
  • Nurses
  • Nurse educators
  • Pharmacists
  • Physicians
  • Physician assistants
  • Respiratory care practitioners
Type of Activity

This online activity will provide knowledge, guidance for decision-making, and limited practice in some clinical procedures and scenarios for healthcare professionals who may care for the critically ill surgical patient.

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: 

  • Interprofessional communication
  • Patient-centered care
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Teamwork and collaboration
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.  

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. 

Credit Hours

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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 3.0 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 FCCS Surgical activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 3.0 contact hours.  

 

A picture containing text, window, clipart, picture frameDescription automatically generatedPharmacists: 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 3.0 contact hours of continuing education credit.  

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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 3.0 Category 1 credits for completing this activity. 

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Disclosures
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. 
 
Planner and Faculty Disclosure Information

Anthony Manasia, MD

Mount Sinai Medical Center

New York, New York, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose


Antonio Gandra D’Almeida, MD, MDM, FACS, FCCM

Coimbra Military Health Center

Cimbra, Portugal

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Bushra Mina, MD, FCCM

Lenox Hill Hospital

Cresskill, New Jersey, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Bryan Boling, ACNP, DNP

University of Kentucky Medical Center

Lexington, Kentucky, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Craig Coopersmith, MD, FACS, MCCM

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, Georgia

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Daniel Storzer, ACNP, DNP, FCCM

Neenah, Wisconsin, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Daniel Wu, DO, FACOS

Penn Medical Lancaster General Hospital

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Darrell Alley, MBA, MD, FACS, FCCP

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital

Houston, Texas, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

David Dries, MD, MSE, MCCM

Regions Hospital

Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Denise Torres, MD

University of Maryland Medical Center, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Dionne Blyden, MD

Henry Ford Hospital

Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Douglas Naylor, JR, MD, FACS, MCCM

UH Cleveland Medical Center

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Ella Illuzzi, ANP

Mount Sinai Hospital

New York, New York, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Francis Lytle, MD

University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Frank O’Connell, MD, FACP, FCCP

AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center

Yardley, Pennsylvania, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Gregory Schaefer, DO, FCCM

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Janet Thron

Society of Critical Care Medicine

Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

John Gruen, MD

Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center

Los Angeles, California, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

John Oropello, MD, FCCM

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

New York, New York, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Jorge Hidalgo, MD, MACP, MCCM

Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital/Belize Healthcare Partners

Belize City, Belize

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Kaori Ito, MD, PhD, FACS

Teikyo University

Tokyo, Japan

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Keith Killu, MD, FCCM

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kristie Hertel, ACNP, CCRN, MSN

Vidant Medical Center

Winterville, North Carolina, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kwame Akuamoah-Boateng, DNP, MSN, RN

Virginia Commonwealth University Health

Barboursville, Virginia, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Lauren Donatelli-Seyler, DO, FACOS, FACS

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Leandro De Carvalho, MD

Sociedade Mineira De Terapia Intesiva

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Marie Baldisseri, MD, MPH, FCCM

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Marilyn Bullock, PharmaD, BCPS, FCCM, SPP

Aubum University Harrison School of Pharmacy

Aubum, Alabama, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Mark Hamill, MD

University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Mark Newell, MD FACS

Brody School of Medicine at ECU

Greenville, North Carolina, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Mark Safford, MD, FCCP, FACP

NYC Health + Hospitals Queens

Merrick, New York, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Mary Reed, MD, FCCM

Geisinger Medical Center

Danville, Pennsylvania, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Mehrnaz Hadian, MD, MS, JD

Hadian Law

West Hollywood, California, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Melissa Brunsvold, MD, FACS, FCCM

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Michael Pisa, ACNP, ACNP-BC

Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Michaelia Cucci, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS

Cleveland Clinic Akron General

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Patrick Delaplain, MD

Orange, California, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Raul Sanchez Leon, MD, FACP, FCCP, CNSC

Houston Methodist Hospital

Houston, Texas, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Richard Patch, III, MD

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Shabbar Joad, MD, FNB, FICCM, FCCP, FCCM

Fortis Hospital

Jaipur, India

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Sophia Rodgers, ACNP, MSN, DNP, FCCM, FNP, FAANP

Lovelace Medical Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Stefan Leichtle, MD, FACS

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, Virginia

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Stuart Hurst

Emory University Hospital

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Todd Dorman, MD, MCCM

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Victor Coba, MD

Henry Ford Hospital

Saint Clair Shores, Michigan, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

 

Victor Joe, MD, FACS

UC Irvine Healthcare

Irvine, California, USA

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Summary
Availability:
On-Demand
Expires on Feb 01, 2029
Credit Offered:
3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit Credits
3 ACPE (Pharmacy) – Home Study Credits
3 CABN (Nursing) Credits
1 Certificate of Participation Credit
3 Physician Assistant Credits
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