ICU Liberation Hosted Course

Train the multiprofessional critical care team to liberate patients from the harmful effects of an ICU stay.

The Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) hosted ICU Liberation course incorporates recommendations from the pain, agitation/sedation, delirium, immobility, and sleep disruption guidelines and provides implementation strategies through the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F). Developed by international experts, the ICU Liberation course is designed for the whole ICU team and allows institutions to provide uniform patient management training for their clinicians.

Course features:

In-person learning format
Interactive presentations
Simulation sessions for realistic training
Pre- and posttests
Companion textbook
Certificate of successful course completion
Access to additional ICU Liberation initiative resources
Continuing education credit hours (if offered by the course site)
Available in Portuguese and Ukrainian

ICU Liberation is available in a live, site-hosted format for institutions to provide training for healthcare professionals.

To receive the certificate of successful completion, course participants must attend all didactic lectures, successfully complete all skill stations, and achieve a score of 70% or higher on the posttest.

Host an ICU Liberation Course at Your Institution

The SCCM Hosted Training Team can provide details about bringing training to your institution.

SCCM encourages sites to become self-sustaining in course delivery through delivery of hosted training programming. An overview of the hosted training model is provided here.

SCCM’s hosted training team will connect first-time sites with an SCCM consultant to help with course planning and management.
A course director at the hosted training site arranges for qualified instructors to deliver presentations and skill stations.
SCCM provides: presentations with speaker notes, instructions for accessing and administering online modules, skill station guides, administrative materials for planning and managing the course, and online testing.
SCCM delivers course eBooks to learners when the course director registers them for the course. Sites have the option to obtain print textbooks as well.
Online course access as well as pre- and posttests and evaluation information will be accessible to the course director through an online course dashboard.

SCCM’s hosted training offers sites options for course delivery and learning by providing materials for online and in-person training. Sites can continue with the traditional method of meeting in person for the full course or they can assign some or all online course materials for learners to complete before attending the live course.

Training sites have the flexibility to arrange modules and coursework within a program in a way that best meets their needs.

The Adult ICU Liberation hosted course includes these lectures and skill stations. Skill stations are available with each A-F element of the ICU Liberation Bundle (marked by *).

Critical Care History: The Building of the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F)
Integration of Good Sleep Hygiene
Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
A: Assess, Prevent, and Manage Pain*
B: Both Spontaneous Awakening Trials and Spontaneous Breathing Trials*
C: Choice of Analgesia and Sedation*
D: Delirium: Assess, Prevent, and Manage*
E: Early Mobility and Exercise*
F: Family Engagement and Empowerment*

The Pediatric ICU Liberation hosted course includes these lectures and skill stations:

ICU Liberation (A-F) Bundle Overview
Pediatric Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
Assessment, Prevention, and Management of Pain in Pediatrics*
Extubation Readiness*
Choice of Analgesia and Sedation*
Delirium Assessment, Prevention, and Management in Pediatrics
Early Mobility and Exercise*
Family Engagement and Empowerment*
Implementation Strategies

*Skill station included.

Hosting sites are encouraged to train and run the course as many times as they like and can purchase additional course access for learners as often as needed. Because there is no separate license fee, there is no expiration date for running the course as long as the site has purchased learner access.

SCCM will continue to support fair and flexible pricing using its tiered pricing structure. Pricing tiers are based on a country’s gross domestic product at purchasing power parity per capita as reported by the World Bank in its most current World Development Indicators database. This allows SCCM to accommodate ranges in needs and available financial resources.

For-profit sites and U.S. government and military sites are encouraged to contact the Hosted Training Team to discuss pricing.

Cost per Learner
Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4
$125	$63	$25	$7

In addition to payment methods currently in place, the hosted training model will allow sites to pay with a credit card online. Full payment will be required before accessing course materials. Please consider this when planning your course.

Please contact the Hosted Training Team at +1 847 827-6888 or hostedtraining@sccm.org if you would like to discuss special pricing consideration.

Select your country to determine the correct pricing tier.

Find administrative resources with suggestions and guidelines to assist you in planning for your course:

Hosted Training Administration

Hosted training opportunities are delivered by institutions through the work of qualified instructors, directors, and consultants.

Find administrative resources with suggestions and guidelines to assist you in planning for your course:

Hosted Training Administration

Course Features: Available in Portuguese and Ukrainian (adult course only)

Sites and learners are encouraged to use and promote SCCM’s ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F), which offers guidance on how to implement the 2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients. Bundle elements individually and collectively can help reduce delirium, improve pain management, and reduce long-term consequences for adult ICU patients.

The Minimum Data Set Toolkit is provided for multiprofessional critical care teams to measure their practice for performance improvement. The sections cover data and compliance definitions, a spreadsheet for data collection, and input and compliance reports. The toolkit also explains how to understand and use the data for continuous process improvement.

Access these resources and others on the SCCM website.

Funded Training

SCCM has funding to provide financial support for critical care training for organizations in developing or impoverished nations and underserved areas of the United States.

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