SCCM Pod-528: The Impact of Advanced Practice Provider Retention on Quality
In the third episode of SCCM’s podcast series on quality and safety in critical care, Diane C. McLaughlin, DNP, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, FCCM, is joined...
SCCM Pod-527 The Impact of Clinician Retention on ICU Care Quality
In the second episode of SCCM’s podcast series on quality and safety in critical care, Elizabeth H. Mack, MD, MS, FCCM, is joined by Alexander O...
Leaning Forward, SCCM Journals Transition to Fully Online
Driven by a shift in how information is consumed today and a focus on environmentally friendly publishing practices, the Society of Critical Care Medi...
SCCM Pod-515: Ultrasound Training and Humanitarian Missions
Host Maureen A. Madden, DNP, RN, CPNP-AC, CCRN, FCCM, is joined by Susanna Rudy, ACNP, DNP, to discuss her journey from developing ultrasound training...
Critical Care Delivery: The Importance of Process and ICU Structure to Improved Outcomes
An Update From the American College of Critical Care Medicine Task Force on Models of Critical Care.
ICU Admission, Discharge, and Triage Guidelines
ICU Admission, Discharge, and Triage Guidelines: A Framework to Enhance Clinical Operations, Development of Institutional Policies, and Further Resear...
Family-Centered Care in the ICU
Guidelines for Family-Centered Care in the Neonatal, Pediatric, and Adult ICU aim to provide clinicians with evidence-based strategies to optimiz...
Mechanical Ventilation in Adult Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
An Official American Thoracic Society/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine/Society of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Guideline, this ...
Safe Medication Use in the ICU
Clinical Practice Guideline: Safe Medication Use in the ICU provides ICU clinicians with evidence-based guidance on safe medication use pra...
SCCM Africa Infrastructure Relief and Support Project Will Improve Access to Oxygen in West Africa
The Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) new global health initiative, Africa Infrastructure Relief and Support (AIRS), will ensure the av...
SCCM ICU Heroes: The Love Army
The ICU Heroes Award recognizes that patients and families are an integral part of intensive care unit (ICU) care. The award is given to an ICU patien...
2022 Critical Care Congress Plenary: Cultivating Leadership from Within
Beth A. Wathen, CCRN-K, MSN, RN, is the current president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the world’s largest specia...
Best Practices for Managing Staff Shortages
In SCCM's webcast “Best Practices for Managing Staff Shortages,” a multiprofessional panel of experts discussed how staffing challenge...
SCCM's Decision on In-Person Meetings
SCCM is adjusting the format of its meetings and conferences to reflect these new realities. After careful consideration and feedback from many member...
SCCM Awards Three Weil-Research Grants
Named for Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) founder and its first president, Max Harry Weil, MD, PhD, MCCM, the SCCM-Weil Research Grant ...
SCCM Pod-497: Generational Differences in Practice and Learning
In this follow-up to the intriguing session held during the 2023 Critical Care Congress LEAD precourse titled Generational Differences in Practice and...
SCCM Pod-493: Bundle and Save: The Future of ICU Liberation
Ludwig H. Lin, MD, was joined by Kristina A. Betters, MD, and Christopher Adams, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS, FCCM, during the 2023 Critical Care Congress to ...
SCCM Pod-491: Nursing the Wounds of Burnout
COVID-19 transformed healthcare and presented specific long-term challenges for the nursing profession. Samantha Gambles Farr, MSN, NP-C, CCRN, RNFA, ...
SCCM Pod-487: The Intersection of Climate Change and Critical Care
According to the United Nations, climate change is the defining crisis of our time and is happening more quickly than anticipated. Can critical care p...
SCCM Pod-483 Clinicians, Patient Outcomes, and Implicit Bias
Implicit bias is a form of automatic and unintentional bias that affects judgments, decisions, and behaviors. Implicit bias can pose a barrier to the...
SCCM Pod-479: Is Tele-Critical Care Medicine the Future of Healthcare?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals implemented tele-critical care medicine to help patients while keeping staff safe from exposure. Now that pati...
SCCM Pod-465 PCCM: Who’s Got the Right Dose?
Pediatric advanced life support (PALS) guidelines include weight-based epinephrine dosing recommendations of 0.01 mg/kg with a maximum of 1 mg, which ...
SCCM Pod-84 CCM: Economic Evaluation of Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation
Christopher Cox, MD, and Shannon Carson, MD, discuss an article published in the August 2007 issue of Critical Care Medicine, titled "An economic...
SCCM Pod-111 CCM: Family Presence and Physician Performance
Rosemarie Fernandez, MD, discusses an article published in the June 2009 issue of Critical Care Medicine, “The Presence of a Family Witness Impa...
SCCM Pod-119 PCCM: Does Fellowship Program Size and Rotations Affect Clinical and Research Time?
Wynne Morrison, MD, discusses an article published in the May issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, which highlighted the results of a national s...
SCCM Pod-131 CCM: Dexmedetomidine vs. Midazolam: A Cost Minimization Analysis
Joseph F. Dasta, MSc, FCCM, discusses his article published in the February 2010 issue of Critical Care Medicine, titled “A Cost Minimization An...
SCCM Pod-149 Critical Care Coding and Billing
George A. Sample, MD, discusses current and emerging topics in coding and billing, including the end of consultation codes for Medicare patients and t...
SCCM Pod-151 Symptoms Experienced by ICU Patients at Risk of Dying
Kathleen A. Puntillo, RN, DNSc, is the lead author of an article published in the November 2010 Critical Care Medicine titled, “Symptoms Experie...
SCCM Pod-177 CCM: Organizational Culture and Family Satisfaction
Michael S. Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, talks with Peter M. Dodek, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACP, about his article published in the May 2012 Critical Care Medi...
SCCM Pod-181 CCM: Lip-Reading and the Ventilated Patient
Michael S. Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with Ellen Cowen Meltzer, MD, MSc, about her article published in the May 2012 Critical Care Medicine.
SCCM Pod-189: Expanding Palliative Care Training for Fellows
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with Alyssa Majesko, MD, MS, about her article published in the August Critical Connections, which discusses...
SCCM Pod-190 CCM: Challenges within Interhospital Patient Transfers
Jeffrey Guy, MD, MSc, MMHC, speaks with Theodore J. Iwashyna, MD, PhD, about his August Critical Care Medicine article, “The Incomplete Infrastr...
SCCM Pod-198 CCM: Cost Savings and Quality Improvement
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with Amay Parikh, MD, MBA, MS, lead author on an article published in the October Critical Care Medicine, &l...
SCCM Pod-207 PCCM: Attendance During Family-Centered Rounds
Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, speaks with Matthew J. Drago, MD, MBE, lead author on the article “Are Family Characteristics Associated With Attenda...
SCCM Pod-219 PCCM: Readmissions to the Pediatric ICU
Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, speaks with MD, MPH, Angela S. Czaja, MD, MSc, lead author on an article published in the July Pediatric Critical Care Medi...
SCCM Pod-221: Improving Patient and Family Satisfaction in the Surgical ICU
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with Matthew Lissauer, MD, FACS, to discuss his surgical intensive care unit’s efforts to improve the ...
SCCM Pod-231: Family Presence: Evidence vs. Emotion
Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM speaks with Cathie Guzzetta, RN, PhD, HNC, FAAN, about family presence during CPR and invasive procedures.
SCCM Pod-235 Study Explores the Impact of 24/7 In-House Coverage in a Pediatric ICU
Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Kyle Rehder, MD, about the article "Survey of In-house Coverage by Pediatric Intensivists (SINCOPI): Chara...
SCCM Pod-261 44th Critical Care Congress: A Model of NPs and PAs in the ICU: Aligning Goals and Stra
Ludwig H. Lin, MD, speaks with Timothy G. Buchman, MD, PhD, MCCM. Dr. Buchman is the Founding Director of the Emory Center for Critical Care and pract...
SCCM Pod-263 44th Critical Care Congress: Nursing’s Role in Screening Ward Patients for Sepsis
Ludwig H. Lin, MD, speaks with Patricia Posa RN, BSN, MSA, FAAN, System Performance Improvement Leader at Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mi...
SCCM Pod-343 Patient Diaries in the ICU
Ludwig Lin, MD, speaks with Christina Jones, PhD, RN, about the ICU Patient Diary Network. Dr. Jones discusses the widespread adoption of ICU diaries ...
SCCM Pod-344 Developing an ICU Diary in the Pediatric ICU
Todd Fraser, MD, speaks with Jenny Tcharmtchi, BSN, RN, CCRN, about the article, “Family Experience in the PICU,” published in Critical Co...
SCCM Pod-349 Implementation of an ICU Bundle in the PICU
Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Shari Simone, DNP, about the article, “Implementation of an ICU Bundle: An Interprofessional Quality Impr...
SCCM Pod-356 Repeated Critical Illness and Unplanned Readmissions to PICUs
Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Jeffrey D. Edwards, MD, MA, MAS, about the article, “Repeated Critical Illness and Unplanned Readmissions...
SCCM Pod-370 2018 Presidential Address: High-Value Care
Kyle B. Enfield, MD, speaks with SCCM President Jerry J. Zimmerman, MD, PhD, FCCM, about the 2018 presidential address on high-value care that Dr. Zim...
SCCM Pod-426 CRRT in the ICU From a Nursing Perspective
Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) requires considerable involvement from the bedside nurse. Explore when to start CRRT, the nursing role, an...
SCCM Pod-449 Family Nurse Practitioners in the ICU
Family nurse practitioners (FNP) who do not have acute care certification may be recruited to work in ICUs. But when the FNP moves to another in...
SCCM Pod-445 The Association of Workload and Outcomes in the Pediatric Cardiac ICU
Host Elizabeth Mack, MD, MS, FCCM, is joined by Michael Fundora, MD, FAAP, to discuss if the hypothesized frontline clinic...
SCCM Pod-447 eSIMPLER: A Dynamic, Electronic Health Record–Integrated Checklist
Host Margaret M. Parker, MD, MCCM is joined by Alon Geva, MD, MPH, to discuss how the implementation of eSIMPLER provided clinical decision support pr...
SCCM Critical Care Workforce Update 2023
As an update to a 2019 workforce report, three committees from the Society of Critical Care Medicine evaluated critical care medicine’s continue...
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