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• Prioritize assessment needs for the critically ill or injured patient 
• Select appropriate diagnostic tests for the critically ill or injured patient 
• Identify and respond to significant changes in the unstable critically ill or injured patient 
• Recognize and initiate management of acute life-threatening conditions 
• Determine the need for expert consultation and/or patient transfer 
• Educate practitioners on optimal patient transfer strategies to and from the intensive care unit (ICU) 
• Identify general principles of disaster critical care with a focus on critical care resources (ICU beds), level of critical care staffing, and availability of necessary equipment, supplies, and medications 

• Advance practice nurses 
• Anesthesiologists 
• Critical care educators 
• Clinical nurse specialists 
• Nurses 
• Pharmacists 
• Physicians 
• Physician assistants 
• Respiratory care practitioners

• Patient care 
• Medical knowledge 
• Practice-based improvement and improvement 
• Professionalism

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 5.25 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: Crisis Management activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 5.25 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 5.25 contact hours of continuing education credit.

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 5.25 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.

• 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 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 and Faculty:

Aea C. Alex, MD
Naval Medical Center San Diego
San Diego, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Erin W. Barnes, MD
Yale New Haven Hospital
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Leandro Braz de Carvalho, MD, FCCM
Sociedade Mineira de Terapia Intensiva
Minas Gerais, Brazil
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Garrett Britton, DO
U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research
Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Lisa Burry, BS, PharmD
Mount Sinai Hospital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Magalie Caudron, MD, FRCPC
British Columbia Children’s Hospital
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kevin K. Chung, MD, FACP, FCCM
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

John Cunningham, MD, FACP
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, Colorado, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Paul Cusmano, DO
Naval Medical Center San Diego
San Diego, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Asha Devereaux, MD, MPH
Sharp Healthcare
Coronado, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Jeffrey R. Dichter, MD, FCCM
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Joy Dierks, MD, MPH, MSTI
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Department of the Navy
Falls Church, Virginia, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

David J. Dries, MD, MSE, MCCM
Regions Hospital
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

David M. Ferraro, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
National Jewish Health
Denver, Colorado, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kelly P. Ferraro, MD, FACP
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, Colorado, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

James A. Geiling, MD, MPH, FCCM
VA Medical Center
White River Junction, Vermont, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kelly M. Griffin, MD
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, New York, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Stephen M. Hughes, MD
Brooke Army Medical Center
Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Michael J. Kavanaugh, MD
Navy Medicine Professional Development Center
Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Sarah M. Kesler, MD
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Niranjan Kissoon, MBBS, FRCP(C), FAAP, FACPE, MCCM
British Columbia Children’s Hospital
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Lindsay Lief, MD
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Ryan C. Maves, MD, FCCP, FIDSA, FCCM
Wake Forest University of Medicine
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Consultant: Trauma Insights, LLC; Research Support: AiCuris, Sound Pharmaceuticals

John S. Parrish, MD, FCCM
Naval Medical Center San Diego
San Diego, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Nicholas J. Rohrhoff, MD, FACP
Naval Medical Center San Diego
San Diego, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Babak Sarani, MD, FACS, FCCM
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Gilbert Seda, Jr, MD, PhD, FCCP, FCCM
Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista
Chula Vista, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Geoff Shapiro, EMT-P
Center for Trauma and Critical Care
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA
Speaker Honoraria: Tactical Emergency Casualty Care

Charlotte A. Thomas, DNP-DNES, RN, AAGACNP-BC, CCRN
Scripps Mercy Hospital
Chula Vista, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Michael S. Tripp, MD, FCCP, FCCM
Naval Medical Center San Diego
San Diego, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Randy S. Wax, MD, Med, FRCPC, DABEM(EMS), FCCM
Lakeridge Health/Queen’s University
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose