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Deep Dive: Saving the Kidneys
Renal
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Availability
On-Demand
Expires on Jun 30, 2025
Credit Offered
3.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit Credits
3.75 ACPE (Pharmacy) – Home Study Credits
3.75 CABN (Nursing) Credits
3.75 Certificate of Participation Credits
3.75 MOC – ABA Points
3.75 MOC – ABIM Points
3.75 MOC – ABS Points

Online accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: September 13, 2022  

SCCM Product Code: KIDNEYS_22ON

ACE expiration date: June 30, 2025  

Estimated time for activity completion: 3.75 hours

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  • Evaluate and determine the applicability of biomarkers in practical acute kidney injury (AKI) management. 
  • Apply lessons to modify nutrition, medications, and fluid in the management of patients with AKI. 
  • Discuss the precision AKI and fluid overload phenotype
  • List the benefits of a cohesive team-based approach to managing critically ill patients with AKI. 
 

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
  • In-training practitioners
  • Nurse educators
  • Pharmacists
  • Physicians
  • Physician assistants
  • Research scientists
  • Surgeons 
Online case-driven lectures, practical, and forward-thinking activity.

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:  

  • Patient Care 
  • Medical Knowledge 
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.   

Successful completion of this continuing medical education (CME) activity, which includes participation and a passing score of 70% (three attempts) on the posttest and completion of the overall evaluation, enables the participant to earn up to 3.75 credits 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 enduring educational activity for a maximum of 3.75 AMA PRA Category 1 credit™. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity.  

 

Nurses: The Master Class: Saving the Kidneys activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 3.75 contact hours.   

 

ACPE LogoPharmacists:
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 3.75 contact hours of continuing education credit.
(0236-0000-22-138-H01-P)  

 

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 3.75 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.   

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 3.75 medical knowledge maintenance of certification (MOC) points in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA), and American Board of Surgery (ABS) MOC programs. 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 MOC for up to 3.75 credits. 

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.

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:  

Rajit Basu, MD, MS, FCCM 

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital 

Chicago, Illinois 

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

 

Sharon Plenner 

Society of Critical Care Medicine 

Mount Prospect, Illinois 

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

 

Faculty:  

Erin F. Barreto, MSC, PharmD, FCCM 

Mayo Clinic 

Rochester, Minnesota 

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

 

Rajit Basu, MD, MS, FCCM 

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital 

Chicago, Illinois 

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

 

Michael J. Connor, MD 

Emory University School of Medicine 

Atlanta, Georgia 

Author Royalties – UpToDate, Inc; Organizer & Faculty - University of Alabama Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Academy, Consultant – Vifor Pharma, Inc.  

 

Dana Fuhrman, DO, MS 

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

 

Theresa Mottes, CPNP, RN, MSN 

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital 

Chicago, Illinois 

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

 

Natalja L. Stanski, MD 

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center 

Cincinnati, Ohio 

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose