Critical Care Medicine CME

ACLS Medical Training is committed to expanding ACLS, BLS, and PALS continuing education to medical professionals so that victims of cardiopulmonary arrest will have properly trained individuals ready to help in their time of need. Their educational materials include:
• Provider Manuals;
• Practice Tests;
• Megacode Simulators;
• ACLS and PALS Algorithms;
• General Knowledge Base;
• Certification Examinations.

Target Audiences: Physicians focusing on Critical Care.

CME activities of special interest to critical care specialists. Medscape contains a variety of educational formats:

CONFERENCE COVERAGE – Reports of advances presented at major medical conferences; typically includes several tracks with news stories, expert interviews, and in-depth topic overviews.

CLINICAL UPDATE – Comprehensive original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.

FAST TRACK CLINICAL UPDATE – Narrowly focused original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.

CME-LIVE – Real-time online events with streaming video, synchronized visuals, and interactive questions and answers; archived for 1 year.

CLINICAL BRIEFS – Daily reports of major current medical research articles; 0.25 credits each

JOURNAL CME – Articles selected from a wide selection of peer-reviewed journals.
SPECIAL REPORT CME – Topic-based monthly email newsletter distributed to Medscape’s professional member database by specialty.

INTERACTIVE PATIENT CASES – Original CME activity presented to the physician in an interactive, clinical case-based format. (See especially eMedicine CME Case Presentations.)
CME CIRCLE – Multimedia content certified by other accredited professional education providers, typically from live symposia or monographs, and then posted on Medscape and archived for one year.

Target Audience: Physicians specializing in Critical Care.

These areas are covered:
Goal Directed Therapy ,Early Goal Directed Therapy, Hemodynamic Monitoring, Glucose Monitoring / Diabetes and Critical Care Pharmacology.

Some recent titles are:
• Making the Case for Glycemic Control: Is it a Matter of Tightness or Timing?
• Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring
• Cardiac Output Monitoring vs. TEE/TTEGoal-Directed Therapy in the Operating Room
• Physiologic Optimization Program: Physiology Based Fluid Management
• Extravascular Lung Water: Clinical Implications
• Critical Care Pharmacotherapy Literature Updates
• Severe Sepsis: Early Recognition & Management Saves Lives
• The Use of Dynamic Parameters in Perioperative Fluid Management
• Current Trends in Management of Blood Glucose in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Anesthesiology, Critical Care, ER, Hospital Medicine, and Pediatrics (ICU).

Scientia CME Critical Care contains about 70 courses dealing with many aspects of critical care.

Courses are organized into these sections:

• Scientia CME Critical Care – ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery)
• Scientia CME Critical Care – Glucose Management
• Scientia CME Critical Care – Goal Directed Therapy
• Scientia CME Critical Care – Hemodynamics
• Scientia CME Critical Care – Pharmacotherapy Literature Updates
• Scientia CME Critical Care – Sepsis

Target Audience:

Physicians focusing on Critical Care, Hospital Medicine, or Emergency Medicine.

Goal-directed therapy (GDT) has been taken as the gospel in critical care since the publication of Rivers et al.’s seminal paper on the topic demonstrating a mortality benefit in patients with severe sepsis and related shock back in late 2001, whose protocols were soon embraced and became ensconced in practice as standards of care, overlapping with other, high-acuity areas of medical specialty like surgery and emergency medicine. However, these initially results later became more mixed and equivocal on the whole when balanced in the context of more recent literature.

By the end of the session the participant will be able to:

• Describe the present methods of fluid assessment
• Describe the present methods of hemodynamic monitoring
• Given patient cases, reason your approach to fluid management under various clinical circumstances

Target Audience:

This program has been designed for a multidisciplinary physician and nurse audience including: ICU / Anesthesia / Peri-op / Intensivists / Trauma / Critical Care

Goal-directed therapy (GDT) has been taken as the gospel in critical care since the publication of Rivers et al.’s seminal paper on the topic demonstrating a mortality benefit in patients with severe sepsis and related shock back in late 2001, whose protocols were soon embraced and became ensconced in practice as standards of care, overlapping with other, high-acuity areas of medical specialty like surgery and emergency medicine. However, these initially results later became more mixed and equivocal on the whole when balanced in the context of more recent literature.

By the end of the session the participant will be able to:

• Describe the risks of over- and under-resuscitation
• Describe the present methods of fluid assessment
• Describe the present methods of hemodynamic monitoring
• Given patient cases, reason your approach to fluid management under various clinical circumstances

Target Audience:

This program has been designed for a multidisciplinary physician and nurse audience including: ICU / Anesthesia / Peri-op / Intensivists / Trauma / Critical Care

Goal-directed therapy (GDT) has been taken as the gospel in critical care since the publication of Rivers et al.’s seminal paper on the topic demonstrating a mortality benefit in patients with severe sepsis and related shock back in late 2001, whose protocols were soon embraced and became ensconced in practice as standards of care, overlapping with other, high-acuity areas of medical specialty like surgery and emergency medicine. However, these initially results later became more mixed and equivocal on the whole when balanced in the context of more recent literature.

By the end of the session the participant will be able to:

• Given patient cases, reason your approach to fluid management under various clinical circumstances
• Given patient cases, balance volume with vasoactive therapy in your hemodynamic stewardship of the patient

Target Audience:

This program has been designed for a multidisciplinary physician and nurse audience including: ICU / Anesthesia / Peri-op / Intensivists / Trauma / Critical Care