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Disch (Crit Care Med. 2018;46:437-441) set out to highlight the benefits of mentorship and its lack in underrepresented groups. Although women and minorities make up an increasing percentage of physicians and medical school faculty, they are underrepresented at higher ranks. She cites a study surveying over 1,100 women faculty members that found that only 54% felt they had a mentor.
Killien et al (Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2019;Epub ahead of print) set out to evaluate the prevalence of health-related quality of life (HRQL) decline in pediatric survivors of community-acquired sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock and to determine which factors are associated with a failure to return to baseline HRQL.
Read about the Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) efforts to seek diversity and inclusion within the critical care profession and SCCM organization.
Efstathiou et al (PLoS One. 2018;13:e0207634) developed a standardized mentorship program and a series of surveys to evaluate the program’s impact, specifically measuring faculty satisfaction and productivity.
Thanks for entering to receive a complimentary SCCM Self-Directed Fundamental Critical Care Support or Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support course. You can learn more about our licensed activities at sccm.org/Fundamentals
This article addresses the ethical considerations of challenging family situations in the ICU.
Learn about billing and coding changes for neonatal and pediatric critical care services.
This article discusses the use of peripheral vasopressors.
This appraisal from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is a follow-up to the 2009 Critical Connections article “The Critical Care Physician Workforce: An Update from SCCM.”
Read about the SCCM Southeast (SCCMSE) Chapter's mentor-mentee program.
Hear from the SCCM Diversity and Inclusion Committee about how mentorship can enhance diversity and professional development.
This article celebrates Robert H. Bartlett, MD, who received the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the 48th Critical Care Congress.
Learn about how to become a fellow in the American College of Critical Care Medicine.
This article celebrates the 2019 recipients of the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s ICU Heroes Award.
Learn about professional development from the SCCM President.
Read about the role of mentorship in the development of a practitioner.
Hear from the Society CEO about SCCM activities aimed at advancing its mission.
Discover ways to advance and support women in critical care.
Read about the design and implementation of mentorship programs.
The Patient Communicator App by SCCM is designed to improve communication between patients and caregivers.
Congratulations to the Discovery Grant recipients.
Hernández et al (JAMA. 2019;321:654-664) set out to address that question with a multicenter randomized trial in which they compared two resuscitative targets: the normalization of blood lactate and the normalization of peripheral perfusion as quantified by capillary refill time.
Host a PFCCS course and prepare healthcare professionals to care for critically ill and injured pediatic patients.
Equip clinicians to recognize critical illness and initiate care for critically ill pediatric patients.
Host an FCCS: Resource Limited course and prepare healthcare professionals to care critically ill and injured patients in resource-limited areas.
Find a hosted training near you.
Levy et al (J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018;72:173-182) conducted a prospective, double-blind, multicenter RCT comparing epinephrine to norepinephrine in the setting of CS in patients who underwent AMI treated with percutaneous coronary intervention.
Understand the criteria for becoming an instructor, director, or consultant for one of SCCM’s many hosted training opportunities.
Administrative resources to assist you in planning for your hosted training.
Host an FCCS course and prepare healthcare professionals to manage critically ill patients.
Simonis et al (JAMA. 2018;320;1872-1880) set out to evaluate the effect of an LTVV strategy versus an intermediate tidal volume ventilation strategy in intensive care unit patients without ARDS.
Prepares nonintensivists to manage critically ill patients.
Host an MCCR course and offer healthcare professionals extensive coverage of core concepts in adult critical care.
Learn about billing and coding changes for peripherally inserted venous catheters.
Read about standard medical concentrations and the opportunity to reduce medication errors.
This article addresses the ethical considerations of informed consent.
Discover how the SCCM-Weil research grants are improving care.
Hear the story of how the ICU Liberation Campaign played a role in patient care.
This article remembers Graham Ramsay, MD, one of the founding leaders of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign.
Read about examples of successful patient-and-family centered innovations implemented by three units for the PCOR-ICU collaborative.
Hear from the Society president about SCCM initiatives to support the continuum of care.
Discover how the Society’s THRIVE Peer Support Collaborative is addressing post-intensive care syndrome.
Learn about the ICU Liberation Collaborative’s new study on the implementation of the ABCDEF bundle in the ICU.
Family Engagement Collaborative Informational Sheet
Critical Care Explorations is the official open-access, peer-reviewed journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Learning collaboratives focused on improving patient safety and the quality of care.
Fundamentals resources provide critical care training to prepare future intensivists and other healthcare professionals.
Girard et al (N Engl J Med. 2018;379:2506-2516) and Page et al (Lancet Respir Med. 2013;1:515-523) evaluated the treatment of acute delirium with antipsychotics.
Come together to advance a specific area of knowledge.
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).
Perkins et al (N Engl J Med. 2018;379:711-721) set out to examine the effects of epinephrine during OHCA.
Read about how Ashish K. Khanna, MD, FCCP, FCCM, supports educational outreach in India and raising awareness of sepsis worldwide.
Read about how Amelie von Saint Andre-von Arnim, MD, supports pediatric critical care programs in Kenya.
Read about how Brian T. Wessman, MD, FACEP, FCCM, supports chromosome 18 research.
Read about how Michael T. McCurdy, MD, FCCM, FCCP, FAAEM, supports medical education and training in Haiti.
Read about how the fundraising efforts of Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc.
Read about how Shahla Siddiqui, MD, MS, DABA, FAMS, supports community outreach in Cambodia.
Read about how Jorge Luis Hidalgo, MD, MCCM, MACP, supported Guatemala’s Volcán de Fuego response efforts.
This article discusses communicating with patients and families about the need for alternative drug therapies.
Learn about billing and coding for wound care.
This article discusses a case study about the ethical considerations of offering high-risk surgeries for complications of intravenous drug use.
See how SCCM’s Fundamental Critical Care Support courses are impacting lives.
Hear from Sheri Crow, MD, about introduction of the Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support (PFCCS) program to healthcare providers in the Republic of Georgia.
Read about the impact of teaching Fundamentals courses.
Hear the story of how an SCCM member brought together two post-intensive care syndrome survivors.
Society of Critical Care Medicine Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice-President, David J. Martin, CAE, discusses the Society's donor development and gift stewardship program.
Hear from the SCCM President about the value of volunteering and member engagement.
Learn about the Society’s emergency response and fundraising activities.
Discover how the Surviving Sepsis Campaign is improving healthcare worldwide.
LearnICU is a comprehensive library housing thousands of online educational materials, many available only to SCCM members.
LearnICU is a comprehensive library housing thousands of online educational materials, many available only to SCCM members.
Host a critical care ultrasound course and provide the realistic training needed to perform and interpret ultrasound imaging.
Hear from the Society President about how SCCM programs can promote a learning healthcare environment in the ICU.
More people are surviving critical illness, leading to an increase in a condition called post-intensive care syndrome (PICS). This video aims to help educate ICU survivors and their families about PICS.
The goal of PICUparent is to help parents understand their child's healthcare.
AfterPICU.com offers resources for children and families following a critical illness.
The Sepsis Alliance aims to educate the public and healthcare professionals about sepsis.
The ICU Delirium website provides resources for patients and families about delirium.
healthtalk.org provides free, reliable information about health issues by sharing people's real-life experiences.
After the ICU is a group of doctors, former patients and other healthcare professionals, working together to provide ICU patients, their families and other medical professionals with information about the road to recovery after critical illness
ICUsteps is the United Kingdom's only support group for people who have been affected by critical illness and has helped many former patients, their relatives and medical staff from organisations around the world.
Intensive Care: A Guide for Patients and Relatives is a booklet produced by ICUSteps. It contains advice and information about intensive care. It tells you how critical illness may be treated and what recovery may be like.
The Warrior Within is an audio relaxation exercise that post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) suffers can use as part of a meditation practice.
Sepsis is the body’s overwhelming and life-threatening response to infection. This video offers strategies for sepsis survivors and their families
As children leave the pediatric intensive care unit, parents may notice changes. Some children may have additional needs after a stay in the PICU. This video aims to share stories and examples that exemplify challenges after a PICU stay.
Children may experience post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) after a stay in the intensive care unit. Symptoms include learning and attention difficulties, post-traumatic stress disorder, sadness and depression, difficulty sleeping, behavior changes, motor dysfunction, breathing problems, feeding problems and difficulty hearing and seeing. Families may also be impacted by PICS. Help prepare your whole family to identify and treat PICS.
There are five key areas patients and families should consider they prepare to be discharged from the ICU or hospital. These include the equipment you may need for daily activities at home, what medications you may need and common mistakes about medications, follow-up appointments, and what do if you are struggling at home.
The critical care team is a group of specially trained caregivers who work in a special area of the hospital known as the intensive care unit, or ICU. Learn what members of the critical care do and their role in patient care.
You may have many questions during your stay in the intensive care unit (ICU). These are some frequently asked questions.
The MyICUCare.org Resource Library includes complimentary materials aimed at educating patients and families about the critical care journal, both during an ICU stay and after discharge.
Patients and Families Glossary
Clinicians may learn more about caring for patients and families with the ABCDEF Bundle.
These resources can help patients and families: Better understand post-intensive care syndrome (PICS), Better understand how to THRIVE after a stay in the intensive care unit, Better understand Sepsis.
Post-intensive care syndrome, or PICS, is made up of health problems that remain after critical illness.
Children may experience post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) after a stay in the intensive care unit.
This video offers five key areas patients and families should consider they prepare to be discharged from the ICU or hospital.
Patients and Families Resources
Ruemmler et al (Resuscitation. 2018;132:56-62) set out to compare intermittent positive pressure ventilation to passive oxygenation (continuous positive airway pressure) and a novel ultra-low tidal volume ventilation (ULTVV) regimen.
SCCM seeks to improve patient and family support after critical illness through the THRIVE Initiative.
This booklet helps patients and families feel more at ease in the ICU and make better informed decisions about critical care
About Critical Care. Get to know the group of specially trained caregivers who work in the intensive care unit. Find answers to questions about critical care.
This site aims to educate patients and families about critical care during an ICU and about life after release from the hospital.
In response to hurricane developments, the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is accepting donations to help support the victims impacted by these natural disasters.
Jaber et al (Lancet. 2018;392:31-40) set out to evaluate the effect of sodium bicarbonate infusion on critically ill patient outcomes.
This article discusses analgesic alternatives to opioid drug shortages.
Learn about billing and coding for central venous access procedures.
This article discusses a case study about the ethical considerations of providing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to a Jehovah’s Witness.
This article discusses important things to consider regarding pediatric sepsis.
Learn about how the ICU Liberation Campaign's ABCDEF Bundle can be applied in the ICU.
Read about the 2018 recipient of the Drs. Vidyasagar and Nagamani Dharmapuri Award for Excellence in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
Hear from the Society President about SCCM initiatives to enhance prevention of maternal/neonatal sepsis.
Discover how the pediatric ICU can be transformed into a culture of mobility.
Read about how a pediatric ICU team is implementing the ICU Liberation Campaign.
Crit Care Med. 2018 Sep;46(9):e825-e873.
ICU Liberation References. Find relevant information to ICU Liberation.
Funding is available for SCCM's critical care training courses.
Nishikimi et al (Crit Care Med. 2018;46:1099-1105) set out to identify the effects of ramelteon, a melatonin agonist, on ICU length of stay for critically ill patients.
Implement the A-F elements of the ICU Liberation Bundle to improve outcomes while transforming culture.
The 2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients in the ICU, known as the PADIS Guidelines, provide a roadmap for developing integrated, evidence-based, and patient-centered protocols.
The Society of Critical Care Medicine's ICU Liberation campaign aims to liberate patients from the harmful effects of pain, agitation, and delirium in the intensive care unit.
The ICU Liberation Campaign aims to liberate patients from the harmful effects of an intensive care unit stay.
This article discusses a case study about the ethical considerations of law enforcement in the inpatient setting.
This article discusses the safety of antiepileptics during drug shortages.
Learn about the recepient of the 2019 ACCM Distinguished Investigator Award.
This article discusses ICU capacity in regard to patient recovery, quality of care, and patient and staff satisfaction.
This article discusses the funding options that are available to early career investigators.
Read about the ways to get involved in research and find research funding in settings outside academia.
Learn about the threat of missing data to the validity of critical care research and how bias can be minimized.
Learn about invistagor responsiblities during an emergency situation in which the patient is not able to participate in informed consent.
Learn about research focused on improving alert systems and avoiding alarm fatigue.
Learn about how SCCM’s Specialty Sections provide opportunity for professional development through mentoring programs.
Hear from the Society President Jerry J. Zimmerman, MD, PhD, FCCM, about the challenges and importance of research in the ICU.
Kuppermann et al (N Engl J Med. 2018;378:2275-2287) sought to prospectively determine the role that fluid makeup and rate have on the development of neurologic injury in children with DKA.
SCCM invites you to share your stories so that others can learn and be inspired!
Description of best practices for survey development.
Combes et al (N Engl J Med. 2018;378:1965-1975) set out to determine whether the use of ECMO reduced mortality in patients with ARDS when defined by one of three criteria: P/F ratio < 50 mm Hg for > 3 hours, P/F ratio < 80 mm Hg for > 6 hours, or pH < 7.25 coupled with Paco2 ≥ 60 mm Hg for > 6 hours (with respiratory rate < 35 beats/min and plateau pressure ≤ 32 cm H2O).
Policy on Resolution of Personal Conflicts of Interest. Resolution of conflicts means ensuring that the content of the activity is aligned with the interest of the public.
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) has joined #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals, communities, and organizations to encourage philanthropy and to celebrate generosity worldwide.
Medical societies use strict methods to develop and publish guidelines using scientific evidence relevant to a specific topic. The organizations then presents that evidence in the form of guidelines to include recommendations for clinicians and administrators who provide healthcare. SCCM gathers experts to serve on guideline development panels.
This Standard Operating Procedure Manual is provided to highlight steps and processes for the development, publication, and dissemination of evidence-based guidelines and clinical practice parameters developed by SCCM volunteers and support staff.
Review the process and find resources to assist guidelines leaders, panelists, and public members in the process.
This pages provides system requirements for SCCM's eBooks
Neunhoeffer et al (Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2018;19:318-327) sought to use noninvasive means to determine the changes in cerebral oxygen metabolism in infants younger than 6 months who have undergone major surgery.
Access all of the SCCM Podcasts via the app to listen anywhere, anytime at your convenience. Episodes are updated as they are released, so you have access to the very latest in-depth interviews.
Experience educational content from past Congress grant-supported sessions and earn free ACE credit.
Read about members of the critical care community who are giving back in all kinds of ways.
This article addresses the ethics of mental illness as a rate-limiting step in critical care.
Learn about billing and coding for ultrasonography in critical care.
Discover how healthcare educators can instill high-value care approaches in clinical decision-making.
Learn about the Choosing Wisely Initiative and how it is impacting critical care practitioners.
Read about the implementation and success stories of high-value care programs.
In this article, Society President Jerry J. Zimmerman, MD, PhD, FCCM, discusses how the Society of Critical Care Medicine is promoting high-value care in the ICU.