Online accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: December 1, 2023    
SCCM Product Code: CCPCC2022ON2
ACE expiration date: December 1, 2026
Estimated time for activity completion: 13 hours 

• Discuss updates on diagnostic and treatment options in critical illness
• Debate controversial topics in pediatric critical care

• Advanced Practice Nurses
• Anesthesiologists
• Clinical Nurse Specialists
• Nurses
• Nurse Educators
• Nurse Managers
• Pharmacists
• Physicians
• Physician Assistants
• Respiratory Care Practitioners
• Surgeons
• Research Scientist

Self-directed course covering the latest critical care information with an interactive discussion board for learners to ask questions and receive feedback and live question and answer sessions.

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 13.0 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 13 AMA PRA Category 1 credit™. Physicians should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity.

Nurses:
The Current Concepts: Pediatrics activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 13 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 13 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. 

Physician Assistants:
AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician Assistants may receive a maximum of 13 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.

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 EC. The ruling of the EC 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: 

Adebayo Adeyinka, MD, FCCM
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Brooklyn, New York
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Sangita Basnet, MD, FAAP, FCCM
Professor
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Elizabeth J. Beckman, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS
Pediatric Clinical Pharmacist – CICU
University of Kentucky Children's Hospital
Lexington, Kentucky
Consultant and Content Expert – Pediatric Lexi-Comp, Wolters Kluwer

Cherylee W.J. Chang, MD, FACP, FNCS, FCCM
Professor, Division Chief, Neurocritical Care
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Amy L. Dzierba, PharmD, BCCCP
Critical Care Pharmacist
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
New York, New York
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Nicholas A. Ettinger, MD, PhD, FAAP
Assistant Professor
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Ahmeneh Ghavam, MA, MD
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Helen Harvey, MD, MS
Rady Children’s Hospital – San Diego
San Diego, California
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Sarah Hoehn, MD, MBe
Director, Pediatric Palliative Care and Comfort Team
University of Chicago Medical Center Comer Children's Hospital
Chicago, Illinois
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Sharon Y. Irving, CRNP, MSN, PhD, PNP
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Jeremy Jordan, PhD, CPNP
Assistant Professor/Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Critical Care
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Andrea M. Kline, CPNP, MS, RN, PhD
Nurse Practitioner
University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
Northville, Michigan
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Martin C.J. Kneyber, MD, PhD, FCCM
Beatrix Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Groningen
Groningen, Netherlands
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Kavita Morparia, MD
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Holmdel, New Jersey
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Robert E. Newmyer, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Critical Care & Neurology)
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Katherine Potter, MD, FCCM
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Asha N. Shenoi, II, MD, FAAP
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital
Lexington, Kentucky
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Christopher M. Watson, MD, MPH, FCCM
Professor of Pediatrics
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Augusta, Georgia
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Wyn Wheeler, PharmD, BCPPS, FCCM
Clinical Manager/Pharmacist Specialist in Pediatric Critical Care
Levine Children’s Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center
Charlotte, North Carolina
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Cristina Fetila
SCCM Staff
Mount Prospect, Illinois
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Faculty: 

Utpal Bhalala, MD, FAAP, DCH
Pediatric Intensivist, Associate Professor
Driscoll Children’s Hospital
Corpus Christi, Texas
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Corey Chartan, MD
Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Paul A. Checchia, MD, FACC, FCCM
Associate Section Chief, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, Texas
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Nicholas A. Ettinger, MD, PhD, FAAP
Assistant Professor
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Julie C. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD, FCCM
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Media, Pennsylvania
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Sharon Irving, CRNP, MSN, PhD, PNP
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Maureen A. Madden, CCRN, CPNP, DNP
Nurse Practitioner
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
Hillsborough, New Jersey
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Neelima K. Marupudi, BA, MD
University of Chicago Children's Hospital
Chicago, Illinois
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Thomas A. Nakagawa, MD, FAAP, FCCM
Professor and Medical Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
University of Florida College of Medicine
Jacksonville, Florida
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Adrienne, G. Randolph, MD, MS, FCCM
Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Stephanie Schwartz, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
University North Carolina Children’s Hospital
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Philip Spinella, MD, FCCM
Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Sewickley, Pennsylvania
Disclosures: Consultant – Cerus; Consultant - Hemanext

Gideon Stitt, PharmD, BCPPS, BCCCP
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Clinical Pharmacology
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Sebastian C. Tume, MD
Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas
Disclosures: Speaker – Edwards Life Sciences

Christopher M. Watson, MD, MPH, FCCM
Professor of Pediatrics
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Augusta, Georgia
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose 

Nadir Yehya, MD, MSCE
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose