Advanced Pharmacotherapy in Critical Care

• Registration
• Topics & Agenda
• Invited Subject Matter Experts
• Continuing Education

Registration

Topics and Agenda

Invited Subject Matter Experts

Continuing Education

Learning Objectives

• Review the pharmacotherapeutic management of critical care-specific conditions
• ​Apply new knowledge and integrate guidelines to solve pharmacotherapy problems pertinent to patient care in the critically ill population
• Identify valuable practice, technologic, and administrative resources for further advancement of knowledge and practice in contemporary critical care topics

Target Audience

This activity is intended to meet the needs of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and all other medical professionals who care for critically ill patients, especially those involved in pharmacotherapy critical care.

Type of Activity

This activity will provide highly skilled experts the ability to understand how disease states and acute illnesses affect the effectiveness of pharmacologic treatments for various disease states and conditions.

Competencies

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:

• Professionalism
• ​Patient care and procedural skills
• Medical knowledge
• Practice-based learning and improvement

Claiming Credit 

You can access pretest, course materials, and posttests; complete your evaluation; and claim your ACE credit by logging in to your MySCCM account with your SCCM Customer ID and password, then clicking on the icon for the course you are enrolled in under the MyLearning tab. If needed, you can click “Forgot my password” to reset your secure password.

Credit 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 16 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Physicians should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity.

Nurses:
The Advanced Pharmacology in Critical Care activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 16 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 16 contact hours of continuing education credit.

(0236-0000-22-007-H01-P, 0236-0000-22-010-H01-P, 0236-0000-22-013-H01-P, 0236-0000-22-016-H01-P, 0236-0000-22-020-H01-P, 0236-0000-22-023-H01-P)

This course also offers Board of Critical Care Pharmacy (BCCCP) credit of up to 16 hours.

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 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 Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 16 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.

Maintenance of Certification

Successful completion of this accredited continuing education (ACE) activity, which includes participation and a passing score of 70% in the evaluation component/posttest, enables the participant to earn up to 16 medical knowledge maintenance of certification (MOC) points in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), American Board of Anesthesia (ABA), and American Board of Surgery (ABS) MOC programs. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of ACE credits claimed for the activity. It is the ACE activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. ABS requires participants to self-report credit if audited.

This course meets the requirements for MOC for up to 16 credits.

SCCM Grievance Policy

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.

• A written complaint or grievance should be submitted to the Education Department.

• The Education Department will attempt to resolve the complainant's grievance.

• If the initial response is unsatisfactory to the complainant, the matter will be referred to the CEO/EVP for action.

• If the response from the CEO/EVP is unsatisfactory to the complainant, the matter will be referred to the SCCM Executive Committee. The ruling of the Executive Committee will be final.