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• Review the pharmacotherapeutic management of critical care-specific conditions
• Apply new knowledge and integrate guidelines to solve pharmacotherapy problems pertinent to patient care in the critically ill population
• Identify valuable practice, technologic, and administrative resources for further advancement of knowledge and practice in contemporary critical care topics

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 and procedural skills
• Medical knowledge
• Practice-based learning and improvement

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.  

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 12.0 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 2024 Advanced Pharmacotherapy in Critical Care Course Online activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 12.0 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 enduring educational activity provides up to 12.0 contact hours of continuing education credit. (0236-0000-24-146-H01-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 12.0 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.

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 12.0 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 12.0 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.

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.

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:
Kwame A. Akuamoah-Boateng, DNP, ACNP-BC, FCCM
University Teaching Hospital of Butare
Butare, Rwanda
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Judah Brown, PharmD, BCCCP
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
New York New York, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Anne R.T. Brown, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Jarva Chow, MD, MPH, MS
University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Dawn Herman, MBA, BSN
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

John R. Lunde, DNP, ACNP, CCRN
HCA Orange Park Medical Center
Orange Park, Florida, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Pooja A. Nawathe, MD, CHSE-A, FCCM
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Christopher D. Newman, MBA, PA-C, FCCM
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, Colorado, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Nicole M. Palm, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Ryan Rivosecchi, PharmD, BCCCP
UPMC – Presbyterian Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Angela A. Slampak-Cindric, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS
Geisinger Medical Center
Danville, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Colleen Teevan, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS
Hartford Healthcare
West Hartford, Connecticut, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Kathleen B. To, MD, FACS, FCCM
University of Maryland Medical Center, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula, MD, MSc, FCCM
Warren Alpert School of Medicine
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Michael T. Vest, DO, FCCM
Christiana Care Health System
Hockessin, Delaware, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Faculty:
Mohammed Aldhaeefi, PharmD, BCCCP, FACC
Howard University College of Pharmacy
Washington, DC, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Lauren Andrews, PharmD, BCCCP
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Scott Bolesta, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCP, FCCM
Wikes University
Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Jeffrey J. Cies, PharmD, MPH, BCPS-AQ ID, BCPPS, FCCP, FPPA, FCCM
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Research Funding: Gilead, Allergan, Merck, Thermo-Fisher Scientific, Melinta; Employee: BiMerieux; Consultant: Atlantic Diagnostic Laboratories; Advisory Board: DoseMeRx

Brian L. Erstad, PharmD, MCCM
University of Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Ashley D. DePriest, MS, RDN, LD, CNSC
Emory Healthcare
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Deepali Dixit, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Dusan Hanidziar, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Michelle Horng, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Ashish K. Khanna, MD, MS, FCCP, FASA, FCCM
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Sunish Shah, PharmD, BCIDP
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Andrea Sikora, PharmD, MSCR, BCCCP, FCCP, FCCM
University of Georgia College of Pharmacy
Augusta, Georgia, USA
Consultant: Pumas AI; Speaker: ACCP; PowerPak; Research funding: AHRQ

Kathyrn E. Smith, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS
Maine Medical Center
Portland, Maine, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Joanna Stollings, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCM
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Paul M. Szumita, PharmD, FASHP, BCCCP, BCPS, FCCM
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Patrick M. Wieruszewski, PharmD, BCCCP
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Consultant: La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company