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Board of Regents

Ten elected fellows of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) are responsible for the oversight of the ACCM's affairs. These fellows make up the Board of Regents.


Concise Critical Appraisal: Use of Telemedicine During Interhospital Transport of Children

Jackson et al (Ped Crit Care Med. 2018;19:1033-1038) set out to analyze the impact telemedicine had on time to surgery in children with intracranial hemorrhage (ICH).


Donor-Funded Training Supports Fundamentals Courses in Rwanda

Learn how Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) members turned a passion for improving care into action by holding donor-funded training in resource-limited areas.


Clinicians Report High Stress in COVID-19 Response

Critical care clinicians are feeling increased personal stress about COVID-19 and are especially worried about infecting loved ones, while also expressing continued concern about personal protective equipment (PPE) and staffing shortages, according to a rapid-cycle survey from SCCM.


SCCM Pod-411 Clinician Moral Distress

Margaret M. Parker, MD, MCCM, and Christopher S. Parshuram, MBChB, PhD, discuss clinician moral distress in Canadian pediatric and neonatal intensive care units (Dryden-Palmer,K, et al. Pediatri Crit Care Med. 2020;21(4): 314-323). They dive into a discussion on depersonalization, potentially mitigating factors, and more.

Dr. Parshuram is a pediatric critical care medicine physician at The Hospital for Sick Children and professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


SCCM Pod-390 Telehealth and Patient Outcomes

Ranjit Deshpande, MD, and Donna Lee Armaignac, PhD, APRN, CCNS, CCRN, discuss maximizing positive patient care outcomes through telemedicine.

Dr. Armaignac presented on this topic at the Society's 48th Critical Care Congress.

Dr. Armaignac is the director of best practice for telehealth/tele-ICU and director of the Center for Advanced Analytics at Baptist Health South Florida in Coral Gables, Florida, USA.


SCCM Pod-359 Early Mobility in Critically Ill Patients

Kyle Enfield, MD, speaks with Wes Ely, MD, MPH, about his talk presented at the 2017 Multiprofessional Critical Care Review: Adult course in Rosemont, Illinois entitled, “Early Mobility in Critically Ill Patients: More to Come.” Dr. Ely discusses landmark studies that have shown that ICU ventilator weaning protocols, maintaining light levels of sedation in ICU patients, and early mobility protocols can improve patient outcomes and survivorship. He shares his experiences with the ABCDEF Bundle Improvement Collaborative and ICU Liberation Initiative, and provides best practices for implementing the ABCDEF Bundle. Dr. Ely is a professor of medicine and critical care at Vanderbilt School of Medicine’s Center for Health Services Research. He is also the Associate Director of Aging Research at the VA Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Visit www.iculiberation.org for more information. Released: 2/8/18


SCCM Pod-327 Does Simulation Improve Recognition and Management of Pediatric Septic Shock?

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Mark C. Dugan, MD, about the article, “Does Simulation Improve Recognition and Management of Pediatric Septic Shock, and If One Simulation Is Good, Is More Simulation Better?” published in the July 2016 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Dugan works as an Attending Pediatric Intensivist at the Children’s Hospital of Nevada at the University Medical Center and as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Las Vegas, Nevada. In this article, Dr. Dugan and coauthors explore whether or not simulation can be used to assist resident trainees in identifying and performing well at the recognition and management of a critically ill child


SCCM Pod-319 Learning from Others: What We Can All Take from the Pediatrics Experience

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Neethi Pinto, MD, about her talk, “Learning from Others: What We Can All Take from the Pediatrics Experience,” presented at the 45th Critical Care Congress in Orlando, Florida. This talk is part of the session, “THRIVE: Supporting Survivors After Critical Illness.” THRIVE is a new initiative from the Society of Critical Care Medicine that aims to connect patient and family ICU survivors and raise awareness of post-intensive care syndrome.


SCCM Pod-294 Practice Patterns in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Donald D. Vernon, MD, FAAP, about the article, “Practice Patterns in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Results of a Workforce Survey,” published in the October 2015 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Vernon is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. In this article, Dr. Vernon and coauthors discuss the results of survey regarding practice patterns of the U.S. pediatric critical care medicine workforce. Data was collected from active members of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Critical Care and individuals certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.


SCCM Pod-265 Diagnostic Errors in the Pediatric and Neonatal ICU

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Jason W. Custer, MD, about the article, “Diagnostic Errors in the Pediatric and Neonatal ICU: A Systematic Review,” published in the January 2015 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Custer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland and Medical Director of the Pediatric ICU and Assistant Residency Program Director. In this article, Dr. Custer and coauthors examine observational studies reporting autopsy-confirmed diagnostic errors in PICU or neonatal ICU.


SCCM Pod-229: Lifetime Achievement Award, Sepsis Research

Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with Mitchell P. Fink, MD, FCCM, who is the recipient of the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Lifetime Achievement Award; he discusses his background in critical care as well as his research endeavors in sepsis in addition to the future of this disease. Dr. Fink is Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Co-Director of the Multidisciplinary Program for Critical Care Medicine at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, USA. He also serves as Professor in Residence in the Department of Surgery and the Department of Anesthesiology at UCLA.


SCCM Pod-196 CCM: Training Residents Effectively in Mechanical Ventilation

Michael Weinstein speaks with Ewan Goligher, MD, FRCPC, lead author on an article published in the October Critical Care Medicine, “Core Competency In Mechanical Ventilation: Development of Educational Objectives Using the Delphi Technique.” The study aimed to identify learning objectives that would encompass competency-based education in residents’ mechanical ventilation training. Goligher is a clinical associate and an MSc/PhD student in the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto.


SCCM Pod-135 PCCM: WFPICCS and Its Global Agenda

Niranjan Kissoon, MD, FCCM, discusses his article published in the September 2009 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, titled “World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies: Its Global Agenda.” Kissoon is associate head and professor in the Department of Pediatrics at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is also the senior medical director at British Columbia Children’s Hospital.


SCCM Pod-132 The Future of Acute Care Surgery

Lewis J. Kaplan, MD, FCCM, discusses acute care surgery, its relation to surgical critical care, and his predictions for the future of acute care surgery, trauma surgery and surgical critical care. Kaplan is an associate professor and medical director in the surgical ICU at Yale University Medical School and Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut.


SCCM Pod-125 Focus on the Team: Acute Critical Care Surgery

Michael West, MD, PhD, FCCM, discusses his unique career path into critical care and his background as a trauma/critical care surgeon. West is chief of surgery at San Francisco General Hospital and professor and vice chair in the department of surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He served as chair of the 39th Critical Care Congress.


SCCM Pod-74 PCCM: The Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network

Douglas Willson, MD, discusses an article he published in the July 2006 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, "The Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network." Dr. Willson is medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center and the chairman of the Steering Committee for the Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network.


SCCM Pod-74 PCCM: The Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network

Douglas Willson, MD, discusses an article he published in the July 2006 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, "The Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network." Dr. Willson is medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center and the chairman of the Steering Committee for the Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network.


SCCM 2022 Critical Care Congress Is Now Virtual

SCCM has announced the cancelation of the 2022 Critical Care Congress in-person event and the postponement of the virtual event to April 18 through 21, 2022.


Best Practices for Mentorship and Burnout Mitigation

More than 75% of healthcare professionals have self-reported burnout as well as increased frustration and feeling overwhelmed at work. Andrea Sikora, PharmD, BCCCP, MSCR, FCCM, discusses what can be done and highlights three recent articles offering recommendations on how to prevent burnout and establish effective mentorship opportunities.