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Society of Critical Care Medicine representatives to the American Medical Association House of Delegates provide an update on recent advocacy.
In the first of a series of podcast episodes focused on quality and patient safety, host Maureen A. Madden, DNP, RN, CPNC-AC, CCRN, FCCM, is joined by Anita J. Reddy, MD, MBA, FCCP, FCCM, and Jose Chavez, DNP, RN, ACCNS-AG, CCRN, FCCM. They discuss the links among patient safety, workforce retention, and how the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the landscape. They explore effective staff retention strategies that can impact patient care and enhance the resilience of healthcare organizations.
Growing and advancing careers in critical care starts at home with the multidisciplinary team.
From Critical Care Explorations. This review summaries the many potential sources of information that clinicians turn to during pandemic illness, the challenges associated with performing methodologically sound research in this setting and potential approaching to conducting well done research during a health crisis.
This resource details how compassion in healthcare has changed with COVID-19. This is a community developed COVID-19 microlearning resource.
Quality Improvement Concepts and Practice/Implementation Science This is SCCM curated COVID-19 microlearning content. Curriculum Topic: Quality Improvement Learning Community Session
Review the concept of moral distress and how it can lead to burnout during a pandemic. Thought leaders will teach conflict management strategies and ways to better support your teams to avoid burnout. The Managing Moral Distress During a Pandemic webinar was held on November 11, 2021.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers receive many requests for media appearances and interviews to help inform the public. This training will provide strategies and techniques to increase confidence of providers participating in media communications.
This presentation discusses utilization of motivational interviewing techniques to discuss COVID-19 vaccines. This is SCCM curated COVID-19 microlearning content.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers have received many requests for media appearances and interviews to help inform the public. This infographic provides strategies and techniques to increase confidence of providers participating in media communications.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals implemented tele-critical care medicine to help patients while keeping staff safe from exposure. Now that patient care has gone back to normal, what is the role of tele-critical care medicine? Donald S. Prough, MD, FCCM, was joined by Krzysztof Laudanski, MD, PhD, FCCM, and Sonia S. Everhart, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCM, during the 2023 Critical Care Congress to discuss how tele-critical care medicine was implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic and its continued benefits after the pandemic. Sonia S. Everhart, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCM, is a clinical pharmacy specialist in critical care at Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Krzysztof Laudanski, MD, PhD, FCCM, is a senior associate consultant at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. This podcast is sponsored by Equum Medical and CLEW Medical.
José L. Díaz-Gómez, MD, FASE, FCCM, rides his bicycle to work every day in Houston, Texas. He passes the Texas Medical Center, where he sees a large Ukrainian flag on one of the hospital buildings. The flag symbolizes support for Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia, and now when Dr. Díaz-Gómez passes it, he sees something more. He sees courage, responsibility, and hope.
In 2014, Nibras F. Bughrara, MD, FASA, FCCM, joined Albany Medical Center (AMC) in Albany, New York, USA, after completing a critical care medicine fellowship and perioperative echocardiography training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. At the time, he was the only intensivist at AMC using point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS).
Members of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) traveled from the United States to Lviv, Ukraine in March to train more than 140 clinicians on lifesaving critical care ultrasound. Learning and using point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) skills allows Ukrainian medical professionals to quickly diagnose and care for critically ill and injured patients—all the more important as injuries continue to mount in the ongoing Ukrainian humanitarian crisis.
Kyle Enfield, MD, speaks with John A. Kellum, MD, MCCM, about his talk presented at the 46th Critical Care Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii entitled, “Are Biomarkers Ready for Prime Time?” Dr. Kellum works as an Intensivist in the Cardiothoracic ICU at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also the Vice Chair for Research and Director of the Center for Critical Care Nephrology in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at UPMC. He discusses how the understanding of acute kidney injury (AKI) has evolved and which biomarkers are most effective in identifying risk of AKI. Released: 11/9/17
Oxygen is essential for human life and has no substitute. Its importance was highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic by the many patients who had difficulty breathing. Medical oxygen is used in many different settings, such as intensive care units, operating rooms, delivery rooms, and during emergency transport.
Thanks to the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Edwards Lifesciences Foundation, Gisselle Aguilar Sabillón, MD, recently led two Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support courses in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, training 39 pediatric residents and ICU nurses and providing standardized knowledge about caring for critically ill children.
As an update to a 2019 workforce report, three committees from the Society of Critical Care Medicine evaluated critical care medicine’s continued emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic, changes in the critical care workforce, and pitfalls exposed by the pandemic.
This is the fourth episode of SCCM’s Current Concepts Series. Diane C. McLaughlin, DNP, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, FCCM, is joined by Kwame A. Akuamoah-Boateng, DNP, ACNP-BC, FCCM, and Collin Sprenker, PA-C, to discuss effective, culturally sensitive end-of-life care. Discover why this topic is a crucial current concept in critical care as the guests share insights and personal experiences in dealing with end-of-life care.
This presentation reviews how clinicians are sharing COVID-19 stories and management information through an online communication tool during the pandemic. This is SCCM curated COVID-19 microlearning content.