Critical Crossroads: Medication Management and Ethical Considerations in ICU Brain Death Management

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Continuing Education

Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: September 23, 2025
SCCM Product Code: ADVPHARMWEB25A
ACE expiration date: September 23, 2026, except for pharmacists’ expiration is 11/22/2025
Estimated time for activity completion: 1 hour

Software/Hardware and Internet Requirements

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Learning Objectives

Describe medications that may impact brain death determination
Define pharmacokinetic considerations of sedation and analgesia and recommend strategies to mitigate medication influence on patient assessment
Explore ethical considerations regarding medication administration in brain death management for the interprofessional team
Differentiate legal compared to moral implications associated with brain death assessment and management

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
In-training practitioners
Nurses
Pharmacists
Physicians
Physician assistants

Type of Activity

This live activity will provide learners with information on the clinical and ethical implications of medications, specifically sedatives and analgesics as it relates to brain death, outcomes, and patient assessment.

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:

Interpersonal and communication skills
Medical knowledge
Patient care
Professionalism

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 Critical Crossroads: Medication Management and Ethical Considerations in ICU Brain Death Management 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.

PLEASE NOTE: To claim LIVE credits, credits from each session must be claimed by the following dates:

ACPE #	Credit Hours	Claim By Date
0236-0000-25-188-L01-P	1.0	November 11, 2025

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 (ABIM0 and American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)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.

Planners:

Judah Brown, BCCCP, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacy Manager – Emergency Medicine

New York Presbyterian Hospital – Columbia University Medical Center

New York, New York, USA