Critical Care Medicine CME

The Cleveland Clinic Ultrasound Workshop focuses on developing foundational diagnostic and procedural skills that can be quickly applied to clinical practice. Physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners across multiple specialties will benefit from lectures and demonstrations from more than twenty expert educators. This activity will provide a greater understanding of ultrasound as an imaging and interventional tool. As such, the lessons learned should have a direct impact on patient care. Worth 9.5 AMA PRA Category I Credits™, with ANCC and AAPA accreditation provided as well!

Learn at Your Own Pace from Critical Care Experts

Earn CME credits and ABIM MOC points while exploring comprehensive updates on basic principles, changing guidelines, and therapeutic strategies with The Brigham Board Review and Comprehensive Update in Critical Care Medicine.

This online video CME program focuses on improving overall knowledge, preparing for board exams, and increasing clinical competency with continuing medical education topics such as:

• Goals and management strategies for patients with respiratory failure
• Interpretation of data from hemodynamic monitoring devices
• Definitions and management of sepsis and shock
• Review of mechanical support devices
• Identification and treatment of acute cardiovascular emergencies
• Neurologic crises and their treatments
• Diagnosis and management of critical illness in the pregnant patient
• Acute kidney failure and renal replacement therapies
• Infectious diseases common in the critically ill and how to prevent some of them
• How to best provide nutrition to critically ill patients
• Diagnostic and management issues specific to surgical patients
• Current guidelines for the management of agitation and delirium
• Palliative care in the ICU and post intensive care issues

Your MDCalc CME subscription includes 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, with up to 58.5 credits available in the Critical Care specialty.

Easily earn and redeem CME as you use review CME eligible calculator content. Over 1 million medical professionals use MDCalc’s over 550 tools daily to support clinical decision making at the bedside. Key topics within Critical Care include:

• Stroke
• Trauma
• General

The HPC Hospitalist, Trauma, and Emergency Procedures Live and Online course covers the 20 most essential procedures needed to work in the ER, ICU, and hospital wards, including the procedures needed for trauma management in the ER.

The course includes lectures and skills labs in: informed consent, procedural sedation, mechanical ventilation, tube thoracostomy, needle decompression, endotracheal intubation, Glidescope intubation, LMA placement, King tube placement, intraosseous line placement, point-of-care ultrasound including E-FAST and RUSH exams, and ultrasound-guided procedures: central line placement, arterial line placement, peripheral IV placement, thoracentesis, lumbar puncture, and paracentesis.

Before the meeting, you watch 17 online lectures at home or in your office; then you attend a LIVE meeting featuring demonstrations and hands-on training in one of a exciting locations including Las Vegas, Chicago, Washington D.C., San Antonio, Seattle, and Long Beach

After completing the HPC Hospitalist, Trauma, and Emergency Procedures Live and Online course, you will be better able to:
• Define the indications and contraindications for hospital procedures
• Identify the pertinent anatomy, patient positioning and proper technique for hospital procedures
• Understand the common complications of the various procedures
• Choose appropriate options for oral or intravenous procedural sedation
• Utilize basic ultrasound to assist with hospital procedures
• Understand the basic principles of mechanical ventilation
• And much more

Target Audience:
Attending and resident physicians, midlevel providers, and medical students working in the emergency room, intensive care unit, or hospital wards.

The HPC Hospitalist and Emergency Procedures Online CME course provides evidence-based information about the 20 most common bedside procedures performed in the emergency room, intensive care unit, and hospital wards.

The course is comprised of 17 modules that cover the indications, contraindications, techniques, complications, fluid analysis, and coding of these procedures.

The HPC Hospitalist and Emergency Procedures Online CME course covers informed consent, procedural sedation, central line, intraosseous line, peripheral IV, and arterial line placement, point-of-care ultrasound including E-FAST and RUSH exams, mechanical ventilation, needle decompression, basic suturing, tube thoracostomy, thoracentesis, lumbar puncture, paracentesis, and basic and difficult airway management including video laryngoscopy.

Target Audience:
Attending and resident physicians, midlevel providers, and medical students working in the emergency room, intensive care unit, or hospital wards.

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.