• Identify tools for assessment of delirium in the critically ill patient.
• Debate controversies related to treatment of the agitated critically ill patient.
• Evaluate strategies appropriate to managing a critically ill patient experiencing ethanol withdrawal.
• Differentiate evidenced-based medicine and controversies surrounding management of critically ill patients experiencing bleeding.
• Examine diagnostic controversies and treatment modalities specific to critically ill patients with suspected heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) and HIT with thrombosis (HITT).
• Apply evolving recommendations for use of prophylactic and therapeutic antithrombotics in the critically ill.
• Discuss pharmacotherapeutic modalities for select hemodynamic emergencies.

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Intended Audience:
This program is intended for clinicians who have responsibility for the pharmacologic management and evaluation of critically ill or injured patients.  These clinicians include the following:

• Physicians
• Pharmacists
• Advance Practice Nurses
• Registered Professional Nurses
• Physician Assistants
• Respiratory Therapists
• ICU Support Team Members

Type of activity:
This activity was prepared to facilitate pharmacologic management of critically ill patients in your clinical practice and will include didactic sessions, case presentations, pro-con debates, audience participation, and question-and-answer session.

Competencies:
SCCM supports recommendations that will promote life-long 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:

• Patient- and Family-Centered Care
• Practice Applications
• Communication
• Quality Improvement

Credit Hours

Nurses – This activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (provider #8181) for up to 11.5
contact hours.

Pharmacists – The Society of Critical Care Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council
for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing education. This conference will provide up
to 11.5 contact hours of continuing education credit (0236-0000-10-210-LO1-P). Pharmacists must complete an
online form to verify session attendance. Upon submitting the online form, a statement of credit can be downloaded.

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 educational activity for a maximum of 11.5 AMA
PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the
activity.
For additional information, please contact SCCM at education@sccm.org or call +1-847-827-6869

 Conference Co-Chairs:

	Gretchen M. Brophy, PharmD, FCCM Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Neurosurgery Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Virginia, USA
	Richard R. Riker, MD Fellowship Research Director Main Medical Center Portland, Maine, USA