Continuing Education
Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: January 28, 2025
SCCM Product Code: WEBAP25
ACE expiration date: January 28, 2026
Estimated time for activity completion: 1 hour
Software/Hardware and Internet Requirements
Review the software/hardware and internet requirements:
Learning Objectives
- Identify common postoperative complications in transplant recipients that may require ICU-level care.
- Describe how disease management may vary for solid organ transplant recipients compared to standards of care (e.g., due to immunosuppressive drug interactions or heart denervation)
- Describe pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic changes of immunosuppressants in critically ill patients and recognize common side effects that may lead to ICU admission.
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
- Nurses
- Pharmacists
- Physicians
- Physician assistants
- Respiratory care practitioners
- Surgeons
Target Audience
This live activity will assist in the timely identification and management of post-operative complications, adapting disease management protocols for transplant recipients, and learning the unique pharmacological changes in critically ill patients on immunosuppressants to prevent ICU admissions.
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
Claiming Credit
You can access the course materials, 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 live educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 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 Transplant Triumph: Caring for the Transplant Recipients in the ICU activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 1.0 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 Live educational activity provides up to 1.0 contact hours of continuing education credit. Credit must be claimed by March 29, 2025
(0236-0000-25-151-L01-P)
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 1.0 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 1.0 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), American Board of Pediatrics (ABP), 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 1.0 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.
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.
Disclosures
Planners:
Kirsten Nadler, MS
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Nicole Palm, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Anne Rain Tanner Brown, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
University of Texas MD Anderson Center
Houston, Texas, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Faculty:
Robert Page, PharmD, MSPH, BCPS, BCGP, FAHA, FHFSA, FCCP, FASHP
Departments of Clinical Pharmacy and Physical Medicine
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Bachar Hamade, MD, MSc
Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Eric Harvester, MSN, AGACNP-BC
Department of Intensive Care and Resuscitation
Anesthesia Institute
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose