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Webcasts on Demand
Available wherever you are, SCCM’s Webcasts On Demand offer a flexible learning experience that can be enjoyed from the comfort and convenience of your home or office. Presented by distinguished leaders in critical care, each 90-minute webcast highlights the latest clinical topics surrounding your practice. The registration fee for each webcast is $35 for members and $45 for nonmembers, and can be accessed as many times as you wish.
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Case Studies in ICU Neurological Assessment
Timely evaluation and therapy of neurological complications can prevent or reduce both morbidity and mortality. This webcast will present a practical approach to evaluating acute neurological changes in a variety of clinical scenarios and disease states. Faculty neurointensivists will provide examinations of various scenarios that emphasize the different aspects of clinical evaluation.
Speakers: Fred Rincon, MD, MS; David B. Seder, MD
Recording Date: February 17, 2011
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Clarifying Roles of Advanced Practice Providers in the ICU
The integration of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) into the critical care team can help to dramatically improve both staffing and continuity of care in the intensive care unit (ICU). During this webcast, expert faculty will examine the roles and responsibilities of NPs and PAs within the critical care setting.
Speakers: W. Robert Grabenkort, PA, MMSc, FCCM; Ruth M. Kleinpell, RN, PhD, FCCM, RN-CS; Lauren Sorce, RN, MSN, FCCM
Recording Date: October 18, 2011
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Early Rehabilitation in the Critically Ill
Timely evaluation and therapy of neurological complications can prevent or reduce both morbidity and mortality. This webcast will present a practical approach to evaluating acute neurological changes in a variety of clinical scenarios and disease states. Faculty neurointensivists will provide examinations of various scenarios that emphasize the different aspects of clinical evaluation.
Speakers: Dale Needham, MD, PhD; Christiane Perme, PT, CCS
Recording Date: October 13, 2011
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Emerging Antithrombotic Agents: What the Intensivist Needs to Know
The expanding range of anticoagulants being developed brings with it a renewed challenge: to identify treatments that prevent and reverse associated complications. This webcast will review advances in oral anticoagulation, describe challenges with their use and provide insights on how to manage critically ill patients receiving them.
Speakers: Mark Cipolle, MD, PhD, FCCM; William Dager, PharmD, FCSHP
Recording Date: June 18, 2011
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Ethical Dilemmas in the ICU
Although patients have a right to autonomous decision making, physicians have equal rights of conscience. This webcast will reveal situations in which physicians are not required to provide therapy to a patient, elaborating on what constitutes unethical or inappropriate treatment, how to refuse to provide patient care and the possible consequences of a refusal.
Speakers: Daniel A. Beals, MD; Dan R. Thompson, MD, FCCM
Recording Date: November 18, 2010
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Evolving Definitions of the ICU Team
In order to maximize the ICU team capacity, it is essential to integrate advanced practice providers and hospitalists. This webcast explores options on how to augment the ICU team by focusing on the use of nurse practitioners, physician assistants and hospitalists to meet the needs of acutely and critically ill patients.
Speakers: Marilyn Hravnak, RN, PhD, FCCM; Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA, FHM; Richard Savel, MD, FCCM
Recording Date: September 20, 2011
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Extended Dialysis for the Treatment of AKI in the ICU Patient
The management of acute kidney injury (AKI) includes multiple modalities of renal replacement therapy. This webcast will provide an overview on choosing the best therapy based on the needs of your patient, managing complications and identifying the latest studies in support of renal function.
Speaker: Kevin Finkel, MD
Recording Date: April 21, 2011
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Lessons You Need to Know When Providing ECMO
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can be a life-saving modality. However, its implementation requires a high level of care that utilizes a multidisciplinary approach and constant monitoring. During this webcast, clinicians will learn how to identify candidates for ECMO therapy, as well as how to initiate and manage a successful ECMO program.
Speakers: Daniel Herr, MD, FCCM; Jason Lippy, RN
Recording Date: May 19, 2011
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Pediatric O2 Series: Getting Oxygen In
Physicians managing pediatric patients with acute lung injury or acute respiratory distress syndrome are faced with a complex array of options influencing oxygen therapy. Decisions regarding mode of mechanical ventilation, selection of optimal levels of positive end-expiratory pressure, tidal volume, expiration time ratio, protective ventilation strategies, recruitment maneuvers, prone positioning, and extraneous gases or drugs may all affect clinical outcome.
Speakers: Mark W. Hall, MD, FCCM; Michael A. Gentile, RRT, FCCM; Ira M. Cheifetz, MD, FCCM
Recording Date: March 12, 2012
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Pediatric O2 Series: Moving Oxygen Around
Critically ill pediatric patients have a high incidence of anemia at the time of admission and throughout their pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) stay. The use of packed red blood cell (PRBC) transfusions is common, with approximately 17% of all pediatric ICU patients receiving transfusions. However, there are risks associated with PRBC transfusions, including infections, transfusion reactions, fluid overload, and medical errors. This webcast presents an overview of the relationship between red blood cell transfusions and clinical outcomes in critically ill children.
Speakers: Allan M. Doctor, MD; Phillip C. Spinella, MD
Recording Date: April 19, 2012
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Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS)
The prevalence of PICS is rising as the number of survivors of critical illness continues to grow. As a result, there is an urgent need to address the long-term physical, cognitive and mental health impairments that are frequently experienced by intensive care survivors and their families. Learn strategies to reduce the prevalence and impact of PICS on critically ill and injured patients.
Speakers: Joseph Bienvenu, MD, PhD; Judy Davidson, CNS, FCCM, RN, DNP
Recording Date: September 15, 2011
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Prevention of Intravenous Catheter-Related Infections in the ICU
Intravenous catheter related infections remain a daily concern in the ICU. This webcast offers evidence-based best practice methods on how to manage and prevent these infections in the adult and pediatric patient. Expert facult will discuss the new guidelines development and how to achieve a zero rate of infection.
Speakers: Naomi P. O'Grady, MD, FCCM; Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, FCCM
Recording Date: February 17, 2010
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Sedation and Delirium in the ICU
Delirium in the ICU is a complication affecting as many as 85% of patients receiving mechanical ventilation. This webcast will provide clinicians with information related to management strategies for the critically ill patient with delirium due to sedation.
Speakers: Sanjay Subramanian, MD; Elizabeth Torrence, RN, MN, EdD
Recording Date: March 10, 2011
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Targeted Temperature Management: Evidence and Practice in the ICU Patient
As a follow-up to SCCM's clinical focus hypothermia conference, this webcast will review and interpret the findings of major studies and provide an assessment of the current evidence that exists both for and against using targeted temperature management practices for critically ill patients.
Speakers: Mark E. Nunnally, MD; David B. Seder, MD
Recording Date: November 18, 2010
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Telemedicine's Impact on Safety and Quality
Intensive care unit (ICU) telemedicine makes use of clinical informatics and video conference technology to provide critical care from a remote location. This webcast will review the evolving role of telemedicine in the ICU and provide strategies for enhancing ICU performance to better meet patient care needs.
Speakers: Mary Jo Gorman, MBA, MD; Isabelle Kopec, MD, VPMA; Don Kosiak, MD; Craig Lilly, MD, FCCM
Recording Date: January 12, 2012
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The Future of Critical Care Nutrition Therapy
Nutrition, like other care modalities in the intensive care unit (ICU), is an ever-changing target. This webcast will discuss the optimal timing of parenteral nutrition in ICU patients, the potential risks/benefits of trickle versus full enteral feeds, and how the latest hot topics in ICU nutrition may impact present guidelines.
Speakers: Robert Martindale, MD, PhD; Beth Taylor, MS, RD, CNSD, FCCM
Recording Date: November 17, 2011
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Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is one of the most preventable conditions in ICUs, yet the incidence remains high. This informative webcast provides clinicians and quality improvement hospital personnel with information related to risk factors and prevention strategies for VAP in both adult and pediatric populations.
Speakers: Jana A. Stockwell, MD, FCCM; Raul Nanchal, MD
Recording Date: April 8, 2010
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Vexing Critical Care Challenges: Clostridium difficle Colitis
The incidence and severity of Clostridium difficile infection is rising, and it poses an increasing burden on the health system. This presentation will provide critical care practitioners with prevention and treatment strategies related to C. difficile colitis in the ICU. It will also discuss pharmacological treatment methods and patient and staff safety issues.
Speakers:Keith Olsen, PharmD, FCCM; R.C. Owens Jr., PharmD
Recording Date: July 28, 2010
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Vexing Critical Care Challenges: Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis
Prophylaxis for stress ulcer-related bleeding is a central issue in ICUs. This presentation is designed to provide critical care practitioners with the latest information related to the management of patients who are candidates for stress ulcer prophylaxis.
Speakers: Henry Cohen, PharmD, FCCM; Robert G. Martindale, MD, PhD
Recording Date: December 14, 2010
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Workforce Series: ICU Staffing Models for Academic and Community Hospital Settings
Several alternative models of critical care coverage exist to meet the demands of the new resident duty-hour changes mandated by the ACGME. This informative webcast highlights essential considerations for developing ICU workforce staffing models in both academic and nonacademic settings to meet the needs of acute and critically ill patients.
Speakers: J. Christopher Farmer, MD, FCCM; Jim Bailey, MD, PhD; Timothy G. Buchman, MD, PhD, FCCM
Recording Date: June 23, 2011
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Workforce Series: Managing in the Changing Landscape of ACGME Regulations and Healthcare Reform
Meeting ICU workforce needs in light of current ACGME regulations, as well as healthcare reform and changes in reimbursement, is a priority area of focus for ICUs, and hospital administrators and clinicians. This webcast will present strategies for building and sustaining an optimal ICU environment in both academic and nonacademic settings to meet the needs of acute and critically ill patients.
Speakers: Ruth Kleinpell, PhD, RN, FCCM; Stephen M. Pastores, MD, FCCM; Craig M. Coopersmith, MD, FCCM
Recording Date: April 27, 2011
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