Online accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: January 31, 2022 
ACE expiration date: December 31, 2024 
Estimated time for activity completion: 20 hours

In order to successfully complete this assessment learners will be able to choose appropriate answers when taking the ABIM , ABA, and ABS critical care examinations, will be able to identify best practices that translate not only in an examination milieu but in a clinical setting as well, be able to discern high-quality test items that require application of knowledge regarding critical care content.

Anesthesiologists
Medical Directors
Nurses
Pharmacists
Physicians
Surgeons

Assess your critical care knowledge with Advanced Knowledge Assessment in Adult Critical Care. Comprising 150 questions and rationales with accompanying study materials, Advanced Knowledge Assessment in Adult Critical Care provides a comprehensive review of an array of critical care topics, such as:

• Cardiovascular disorders
• Infectious disease
• Surgery and trauma
• Obstetrics
• Anesthesiology

Physicians, nurses, and pharmacists are eligible to receive 20 hours of accredited continuing education credit. Additionally, 20 maintenance of certification points are available for the American Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Anesthesiology, and American Board of Surgery.

Self-directed

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

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 20 AMA PRA Category 1 credit™. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity.

Nurses: The Advanced Knowledge Assessment in Adult Critical Care activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 20 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 20 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 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.

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 20 medical knowledge maintenance of certification (MOC) points in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), American Board of Anesthesia (ABA), and American Board of Surgery (ABS). Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of ACE credits claimed for the activity. It is the ACE activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. ABS requires participants to self-report credit if audited. 

This course meets the requirements for maintenance of certification (MOC) for up to 20 credits.

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: 

Michael T. Vest, DO
Christiana Care Health System
Hockessin, Delaware
Planner for this educational activity, owns stock in La Jolla Pharmaceuticals, Shonogi Pharmaceuticals, Opko Health Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Danelle Dial, ACNP, CCRN, MSN
Banner Health
Timnath, Colorado
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Ed Michener
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Authors:

Ariffin Alam, MD
Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center
Spring, Texas
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Sheila A. Alexander, BSN, PhD, RN, FCCM
University of Pittsburgh
McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Ntesi A. Asimi, MD, Msc, HCM
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
West Roxbury, Massachusetts
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Erin F. Barreto, MSc, PharmD, FCCM
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Rodrigo S. Biondi, MBA, MD, FCCM
Hospital Brasilia
Brasilia, Brazil
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Marilyn N. Bulloch, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM
Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy
Kimberly, Alabama
Speakers Bureau for Genentech

Michael George Buscher, Jr., DO
Bridgeport Hospital
New Canaan, Connecticut
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Kelly Cawcutt, MD, MS
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Jarva Chow, MD, MPH, MS
University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Sarah Vest Cogle, PharmD, BCCCP, BCNSP
Harrison School of Pharmacy
Auburn, Alabama
Speaker Bureau and Advisory Board for Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC

Jennifer L. Cole, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS
Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks
Fayetteville, Arkansas
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Vishal Demla, MD
Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center
Houston, Texas
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Bradley Dengler, MD
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Potomac, Maryland
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Carrie L. Griffiths, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
Wingate University School of Pharmacy
Monroe, North Carolina
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Robert Groff, MD
Emory University Critical Care Center
Brookhaven, Georgia
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Payal K. Gurnani, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center
Woodlands, Texas
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

James Fillerup Hall, MPH, MD NYU
Langone Health
New York, New York
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Craig Steven Jabaley, MD
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Muhammad Ali Javed, MD, FCCP, FCCM
Mercy Hospital Saint Louis
Frontenac, Missouri
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Randeep S. Jawa, MD, FCCM
Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Stony Brook, New York
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Tyree H. Kiser, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Catherine Margaret Kuza, BA, MD
Keck Hospital of University of Southern California
Long Beach, California
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Firas G. Madbak, MD
University of Florida Health
Jacksonville, Ponte Verda, Florida
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Chet A. Morrison, MD, FACS, FCCM
Central Michigan University School of Medicine
Saginaw, Michigan
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Jeffry Nahmias, MD, MHPE, FCCM
University of California Irvine
Long Beach, California
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

John S. Oh, MD, FCCM
Penn State Health Surgical Specialties
Hershey, Pennsylvania
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

John G. Park, MD
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Sujanthy S. Rajaram, MD, MPH, FCCP
Morristown Medical Center
Morristown, New Jersey
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Pamela R. Roberts, MD, FCCM
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Christopher Schott, MD, MS, RDMS, FACEP VA
Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Wexford, Pennsylvania
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Shawn T. Simmons, MD
University of Iowa Hospital/Clinic
Iowa City, Iowa
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Susan Elizabeth Smith, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Quincy K. Tran, MD, PhD, FCCM
University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, MD
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Jill B. Watras, MD, FCCM
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Falls Church, Virginia
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Content Reviewers:

Cameron M. Baston, MD, MSCE
Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Mary Beth Beyatte, ACNP, DNP, RN
Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine
Eureka, Missouri
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Timothy Dempsey, MD, MPH
Mayo Clinic
Sacramento, California
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Emmanuel Kyereme-Tuah, MBChB, FACP, FCCP
LifeBridge Health Medical Group 
Oakton, Virginia
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Oussayma Moukhachen, BCCP, BCPS, PharmD
Mount Auburn Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose