Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: September 20, 2022
SCCM Product Code: CARDIO_22
ACE expiration date: June 30, 2025
ACPE expiration date: November 19, 2022
Estimated time for activity completion: 4 hours
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:
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 4 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 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Physicians should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity.
Nurses: The Master Class: Cardiovascular Physiology activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 4.0 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 contact hours of continuing education credit. (0236-0000-22-139-H01-P)
PLEASE NOTE: All Live Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education credits must be claimed by November 19, 2022. After this date, credits will not be accepted by Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. After this date, live credits will not be accepted by Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. Credits claimed after November 19, 2022 will be eligible for home study credits only. You will have until June 30, 2025 to claim home study credits.
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 4.0 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.
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:
Steven M. Hollenberg, MD, FACC, FAHA
Emory Heart & Vascular Institute
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Sharon Plenner
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
Faculty:
James C. Fang, MD
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Steering Committee – Novartis, Amgen, AstraZeneca; LOFT; Researcher – Abbott, Boerhinger-Injgelheim/Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Capricor, NIH; Board Member - HFSA
Clifford Greyson, MD
Colorado University
Aurora, Colorado, USA
David A. Kaufman, MD, FCCM
Sound Critical Care
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Consultant – FloSonics; Grant Funding – Baxter Healthcare and Pulsion; Advisory Board and Speaker – Pulsion Medical Systems
Lakshmi Sridharan, MD, FACC
Emory University