Join your colleagues at the largest multiprofessional critical care event of the year – the Society’s 39th Critical Care Congress!

The 39th Critical Care Congress will offer educational sessions on a wide variety of relevant and timely topics that all members of the multiprofessional team will find vital to their practice. The 2010 Congress curriculum will be packed with world-renowned speakers, interactive workshops, thought-provoking panel discussions, stimulating educational sessions, and the opportunity to earn continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives: 

• Recognize recent advances in drug design and development and the relevance to critical illness
• Apply patient care to current and cutting edge information regarding specific therapeutic interventions for the critically ill or injured
• Review, in the context of the intensivist-led, multiprofessional team, new knowledge and strategies to optimize the care and outcomes of the critical care patient

Annual Congress Program

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PRE-CONGRESS EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS

Arrive in Miami Beach early and participate in pre-Congress educational sessions. Each course is packed with essential clinical information to keep you well informed on various critical care topics. Course prices vary. Choose from the following courses:

• Fundamental Disaster Management Course
• Adult Critical Care Refresher Course
• Current Concepts in Pediatric Critical Care Course
• Fundamental Critical Care Support Instructor Course
• Postgraduate Review Courses
• Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support Course

Post-Graduate Courses

• Neurocritical Care: What Every Intensivist Needs to Know
• Intensivists as Educators: Boot Camp for Program Directors
• Tools and Techniques for Quality Improvement
• Mechanical Ventilation
• Renal Replacement Therapy for Intensivists
• Bedside Procedures
• Introduction to Echocardiography for the Intensivist: Theory and Practice  NEW
• Managing Pharmacotherapeutic Challenges: Learning through Simulation (1/2 day) NEW 

PLENARY SESSIONS

Attend thought-provoking presentations that promote innovative developments in critical care. Plenary sessions are held at unopposed times with presentations given by distinguished, world-renowned leaders in the critical care field.

• Polly Matzinger, MD
  National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
  Bethesda, MD
  
  
• Edward D. Miller, MD
  Chief Executive Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine
  Dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Baltimore, MD
  
  
• Robert H. Bartlett, MD
  Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan Health Systems
  Ann Arbor, MI
  
  
• David Jaimovich, MD
  Chief Medical Officer, Joint Commission Resources/Joint Commission International
  Oak Brook, IL
  
  
• Marcelo Amato, MD
  University of Sao Paulo
  Sao Paolo, Brazil
  
  
• Martha A.Q. Curley, RN, PhD, FAAN
  Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
  Philadelphia, PA
  
  
• Jannet Corrigan, PhD, MBA
  President and CEO, National Quality Forum
  Washington, DC

SPONSORED SYMPOSIA

Don’t miss one of the highest-rated educational programs at SCCM’s annual Congress! Learn about clinical breakthroughs and advances that lead to better patient care at sponsored symposia. These industry-sponsored sessions promote quality improvements in healthcare and provide a balanced view of available therapeutic options for intensive care units. Complete details and registration will be available in November 2009.

ABSTRACT PRESENTATIONS AND POSTER HALL EVENTS

Oral Presentations 
These presentations will highlight the investigators of the top 64 abstracts submitted.

Poster Discussions and Awards Presentation
Interact and discuss original scientific research findings with abstract authors in the Poster Hall.

Professor Walk Rounds and Oral Presentations 
Select poster presentations will be assigned by topic to noted faculty and other experts who will facilitate the exchange of ideas and commentary between scientists and established clinicians.