Continuing Education
Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: March 25, 2024
SCCM Product Code: SWEB24A
ACE expiration date: February 1, 2025
Estimated time for activity completion: 1 hours
Software/Hardware and Internet Requirements
Learning Objectives
- Describe the different etiologies of acute kidney injury (AKI) arising in cirrhosis and how they impact treatment and outcomes
- Apply guideline-recommended vasoconstrictor therapy for patients who meet diagnostic criteria for hepatorenal syndrome/AKI
- Discuss the comprehensive management of patients with severe multiorgan disease (acute-on-chronic liver failure grade 3) in the ICU and the implications for liver transplant
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
- Critical care educators
- In-training professionals
- Nurses, adult and pediatric
- Pharmacists
- Physicians
- Physician assistants
- Research scientists
- Other critical care practitioners
Type of Activity
This self-directed activity includes elements that increase knowledge, application and practice for the multiprofessional team members.
This program is supported by an education grant from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.
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:
- Quality improvement and patient safety
- Patient- and family-centered care
- Clinical knowledge
- Communication
- Multiprofessionalism and teamwork
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.
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.
Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Society of Critical Care Medicine and CiME. The Society of Critical Care Medicine is accredited by the 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 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 ICU Management of HRS/AKI and Multiorgan Failure in Patients With Decompensating Cirrhosis 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 enduring educational activity provides up to 1.0 contact hours of continuing education credit.
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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) MOC program. 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 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.
Planner and Faculty Disclosure Information
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:
TJ Boron, MSN, RN
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Marilyn N. Bulloch, PharmD, BCPS, SPP, FCCM
Associate Clinical Professor and Director of Strategic Operations
Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Advisory Board – Shionogi (terminated)
Roshni Sreedharan, MD, FASA, FCCM
Anesthesiologist Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Tamas Szakmany, MD, PhD, FCCM
Consultant in Intensive Care
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Newport, United Kingdom
Board Member – ICNARC; Speaker – ThermoFisher Ltd; Advisory Board – Paion UK, LTD (terminated)
Faculty:
Constantine Karvellas, MD, MS, FCCM
Professor
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Jody Olson, MD, FACP, FCCM
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Ram M. Subramanian, MBA, MD, FCCM
Professor of Medicine & Surgery
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose