Education and Resources

Courses and Training

Non-ICU Clinician
The number of patients is expected to surge in hospitals across the United States, which may result in the need for non-ICU clinicians to care for critically ill patients. Access or share sccm.org/covid19 with those who could benefit from critical care training including:

• Critical Care for the Non-ICU Clinician (Online Course)
• ​Upcoming and Previously Recorded Webcasts Geared to Non-ICU Clinicians

Critical Care Clinicians
SCCM’s COVID-19 Rapid Resource Center gives you access to the latest education; it is a comprehensive collection of articles, presentations, recorded webcasts, and microlearning developed specifically for ICU clinicians dealing with COVID-19 are all in one place and updated regularly.
 

Open Call: Submit Your COVID-19 Resources  
You are invited to submit COVID-19 resources that will support clinicians during the pandemic. Materials will be considered for inclusion in SCCM’s educational programming. Log into mysccm.org with your Customer ID to submit. 

Resources should be appropriate for specific audiences, including: 

• Non-ICU Clinicians - designed to onboard those new to caring for the critically ill patient
• ICU Clinicians - resources that are specific to caring for the critically ill COVID-19 patient

Case reports, questions, personal opinions, and observations may be posted to the online discussion forum at community.sccm.org. 

Guidelines, Recommendations, and Checklists

Surviving Sepsis Campaign COVID-19 Guidelines
SCCM has released its Surviving Sepsis Campaign COVID-19 guidelines to manage critically ill adults with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit (ICU). This guideline is expected to be updated as new evidence becomes available. Find more resources at survivingsepsis.org.
Guideline | Infographic 1 | Infographic 2 | Podcast | Chinese Translation | Turkish Translation

Nutrition Recommendations
Nutrition Therapy in the Patient with COVID-19 Disease Requiring ICU Care provides nutrition recommendations for caring for the critically ill patient with COVID-19.

COVID-19 ICU Preparedness Checklist
Single-sheet resource with embedded links to related documents, videos and other COVID-19 tools.

• ICU Preparedness Checklist
• En Espanol: Lista de Verificacion de Preparacion de la UCI

Webcasts and Q&A Sessions

Webcasts and Q&A sessions cover issues and questions from the field.
Upcoming Schedule | Previously Recorded Events

Disaster Preparation

Preparing Your ICU For Disaster Response
A free guidebook to assess your ICU readiness, communications plans, how to build ICU surge capacity, understanding ethical decision making, and much more.
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Online Training

• ICU Microcosm Within Disaster Medical Response
• Augmenting Critical Care Capacity During a Disaster
• Disaster Triage and Allocation of Scarce Resources
• Sustained Mechanical Ventilation Outside Traditional Intensive Care Units

LearnICU Library

• Drug Shortages: Alternative Analgesic and Sedative Agents
• Critically Ill Patients With the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study
• Middle East Respiratory Syndrome: Knowledge to Date
• Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (SARS): A Critical Care Perspective
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Critical Care Medicine: The Toronto Experience
• Clinical Challenges in Mechanical Ventilation
• SCCM Pod-325 Pediatric Triage in a Severe Pandemic
• What Do I Need to Know About Resource Allocation in the ICU?
• Intentional and Natural Outbreaks of Infectious Disease
• Lessons learned: Protection of healthcare workers from infectious disease risks

 

Educational Videos

This YouTube playlist includes key presentations such as lessons learned from China, putting COVID-19 in context, 21st-century viruses, and other emergency response resources.