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This course is designed to prepare healthcare providers caring for unstable, critically ill or injured patients to disseminate the basic critical care concepts to all professionals who may be called upon to care for the pediatric critically ill.

• Prioritize assessment needs for the critically ill pediatric patient.
• Select appropriate diagnostic tests.
• Identify and respond to significant changes in the unstable pediatric patient.
• Recognize and initiate management of acute life-threatening conditions.
• Determine the need for expert consultation and/or patient transfer, and prepare the practitioner for optimally accomplishing transfer.

This activity will focus on increasing knowledge of the first 24 hours of care and applying this knowledge to practice settings.

SCCM supports recommendations that will promote lifelong learning through continuing education. SCCM promotes activities that encourage the highest-quality education that will enhance knowledge, competence, or performance in critical care practice. This activity will meet the following competencies:

• Patient- and Family-Centered Care
• Practice Applications
• Multiprofessionalism
• Communication
• Quality Improvement

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 10.5 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 Pediatric Fundamental of Critical Care Support, 3rd edition activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 10.5 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 10.5 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 10.5 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.