January 12, 2012

Times:
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Eastern
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Central
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Mountain
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Pacific

Program Overview:
The ICU is under intense pressure to find solutions to manage the increasing clinical and financial ICU stressors which is a result of an aging demographic and the shortage of intensivists.  This webcast explores the role of telemedicine in enhancing the quality of ICU clinical performance and providing patient safety. Telemedicine is the use of video-conferencing and technology to deliver patient care.  It is emerging as a way to optimize the bedside medical team (physicians, mid-level providers, nurses, pharmacists) and better meet the needs of critically ill patients.  We explore telemedicine through the use of case studies and real life experience. 

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this webcast participants will be able to:

• Discuss case studies that exemplify performance enhancement
• Discuss the evolving role of telemedicine in the ICU
• Identify strategies that can be used to enhance ICU quality of care and safety

Schedule (Central Time)

1:00 p.m. - 1:05 p.m. Introduction
        Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA (Moderator)

1:05 p.m. - 1:25 p.m. Telemedicine in the Academic Team setting
        Dr. Craig Lilly from University of Massachusetts

1:25 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Telemedicine in the Critical Access Hospital
        Dr. Don Kosiak from Avera Healthcare

1:45 p.m. - 2:05 p.m. Telemedicine in the Non-Tertiary Hospital
        Dr. Isabelle Kopec from Advanced ICU Care

2:05 pm - 2:30 p.m. Questions and Answer Session


Faculty

	Craig Lilly, MD, FCCM University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Worcester, MA, USA
	Don Kosiak, MD Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center Sioux Falls, SD, USA
	Isabelle Kopec, MD, VPMA Advanced ICU Care Medical Group Saint Louis, MO, USA
	Mary Jo Gorman, MBA, MD Advanced ICU Care Medical Group Saint Louis, MO, USA

Target Audience
This continuing medical education offering is intended to meet the needs of all physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other providers who care for the critically ill patient.

Type of Activity
This activity is intended to apply best practice methods for managing the ICU patient.

Competencies
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:

• Clinical Knowledge
• Quality Improvement and Patient safety 
• Multiprofessional Teamwork
• Communication
• Patient and Family satisfaction

CE/CME Credit

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 live educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™.
Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Nurses
This program has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 1.5 contact hours.

Pharmacists
The Society of Critical Care Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This course provides up to 1.5 contact hours of continuing education credit (0236-0000-12-100-L04-P). Pharmacists must complete the online verification form to confirm sessions attended and upon completion, a certificate can be downloaded and printed.

Obtaining CE/CME credits
To obtain credit, please complete the following evaluation. You will be prompted to complete your CE/CME credit application, for the live activity only, by logging in with your SCCM customer is and password.

You will need your SCCM customer number to continue. Click here if you have forgotten your user ID. Your password should be your last name, unless you have changed it. If you have any questions, please contact education@sccm.org or call +1-847-827-6869.

To reprint a copy of the CE/CME certificate, please click here. 

System Requirements
Audio speakers
PC-based attendees:
Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh®-based attendees:
Mac OS®X 10.4(Tiger®) or newer