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• Recognize examination findings associated with difficult airway management
• Practice essential airway and mechanical ventilation management skills
• Identify the unique challenges of airway management
• Review the indications, contraindications, and benefits of the various modes of ventilation

This continuing education activity is intended to meet the needs of all practitioners who care for critically ill patients, including: 

• Advance practice nurses 
• Anesthesiologists  
• Nurses 
• Physicians 
• Physician assistants 
• Respiratory care practitioners

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

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.

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 4.25 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 Airway and Mechanical Ventilation for Critically Ill Patient activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 4.25 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 4.25 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 4.25 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 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 

Ed Bittner, MD, PhD, MSEd, FCCM
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

John J. Gallagher, CCNS, CCRN-K, DNP
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Consultant - Medtronic; Speaker - Medtronic

Kathleen Ward
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Theresa Woike
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Faculty

Ed Bittner, MD, PhD, MSEd, FCCM
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

John J. Gallagher, CCNS, CCRN-K, DNP
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Consultant - Medtronic; Speaker - Medtronic

John Hunninghake, MD
San Antonio Uniformed Services – BAMC
San Antonio, Texas, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Vikas Kumar, MD, CHSE
Augusta University Medical Center
Augusta, Georgia, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Michelle Rausen, MS, RRT, RRT-NPS
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Christopher R. Tainter, MD, RDMS, FCCM
Cooper University Hospital
Camden, New Jersey, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Daniel Dante Yeh, MD, FCCM
Ernest E. Moore Shock Trauma Center
Denver, Colorado, USA
Royalties – UpToDate; Consultant – Takeda Pharmaceuticals; Advisory Board – Takeda Pharmaceuticals