Best of SCCM Congress Hosted Program

The Best of SCCM Congress program delivers the most popular sessions from SCCM’s Critical Care Congress.

The Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) Best of SCCM Congress program is designed for clinicians who are interested in the latest knowledge, tools, and critical care topics.

Course features:

More than 25 hours of cutting-edge adult and pediatric content from the most popular sessions, including plenaries and year-in-review sessions
Updated annually with programming from the most recent Critical Care Congress
Hosting organizations can add other SCCM courses as pre- or post-courses
Flexible course structure
Certificate of attendance
Accredited continuing education credits (if offered by the course site)

Host the Best of SCCM Congress Program

Contact the SCCM Hosted Training Team to learn more about bringing this programming to your organization.

Thought Leader Sessions

2024 SCCM Congress Opening Session and Presidential Address
Thought Leader: ARDS: From Treating a Syndrome to Identifying Modifiable Traits (William C. Shoemaker Honorary Lecture)
Thought Leader: Crisis and Chaos: Pandemic Perspectives From the 20th U. S. Surgeon General (Ake Grenvik Honorary Lecture)
Thought Leader: Fluids: From Theory to Bedside Practice in Hemodynamic Management of the Critically Ill (Max Harry Weil Honorary Lecture)
Thought Leader: Implementation Science Applied to Critical Care (Norma J. Shoemaker Honorary Lecture)
Thought Leader: Late-Breaking Studies That Will Change Your Practice
- Ceftriaxone to Prevent Early Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Brain-Injured Patients: A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Assessor-Masked Superiority Trial (Lancet Respiratory Medicine)
- Conservative Versus Liberal Oxygenation Targets in Critically Ill Children (Oxy-PICU): A Multicenter, Open, Parallel-Group, Randomized Clinical Trial (Lancet)
- Survival for Nonshockable Cardiac Arrests Treated with Noninvasive Circulatory Adjuncts and Head/Thorax Elevation (Critical Care Medicine)
Thought Leader: New Heart, New Life (Peter Safar Honorary Lecture)

Year in Review Sessions

Year in Review: Anesthesiology
- Top Critical Care Articles From 2023
- Ethical Framework for Decision-Making in ECMO
- Operational Considerations for Modern Helicopter Emergency Medical Services Systems
Year in Review: Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology (Flipped Classroom)
- It's All in the Brain: Updates in Pharmacotherapy of Neurocritical Care Patients
- Urine Good Hands: Updates in Critical Care Nephrology
- Calling All the Shots: Updates in Trauma Critical Care
Year in Review: Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Care
- Emergency Medicine Literature With Applications in Resuscitation
- Prolonged Care in the Emergency Department
- Critical Care Advances in the Prehospital Arena
Year in Review: Internal Medicine
- Topic 1
- Topic 2
- Topic 3
Year in Review: Neuroscience
- Pharmacology Research Update 1
- Pharmacology Research Update 2
Year in Review: Nursing
- The Nursing Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities
- Delirium State of the Science in the Nursing Literature
Year in Review: Late-Breaking Nursing Studies
Year in Review: Pediatrics
- Clinical Research
- Basic and Translational Research
- Medical Education and QI Research
- Data Science
Year in Review: Research Section
- Basic/Translational Science
- Clinical Research and Epidemiology
- Simulation and Education
Year in Review: Surgery
- 2023 Literature: Acute Care Surgery
- 2023 Literature: Surgical Critical Care
- 2023 Literature: Trauma Surgery

Rethinking Vasopressors: Evolving Evidence and Emerging Concepts in Vasopressor Administration

A Multimodal Approach: When Should We Reach Beyond Norepinephrine and Vasopressin?
Sooner or Later: When Should We Start to Add Vasopressors?
Ditching the Central Line: When Is a Peripheral IV Enough for Vasopressor Administration?

At the Nexus of Acid, Oxygen, Dialysis, and Ventilation: The Patient With Kidney and Respiratory Failure

Severe Acidemia and Hypoxemia in Kidney and Respiratory Failure: The Intensivist's View
Severe Acidemia and Hypoxemia in Kidney and Respiratory Failure: The Nephrologist's View
A Vision for Interdisciplinary Care for Patients With Kidney and Respiratory Failure

12 (or So) Steps for Putting "Happy" Back in "Happy Hour": Strategies for Alcohol Withdrawal

Phenobarbital: Taking the Molotov out of Your Cocktail
Ketamine, Gabapentin, and Dexmedetomidine: Fancy Like a Tiny Umbrella or Muddled Herbs
Benzodiazepines: Shut Up Liver, You're Fine

Fluid, Fluid, All Around, and Not a Drop to Drink! Current Fluid Controversies and Novel Therapies

To Flush or Not to Flush: Historical Pearls and Faux Pas of Fluid Therapy in the ICU
The Creep!
Challenges of Bedside Care for the Anasarcic Patient
Raisins and Cacti: Maintaining ICU Patients in a State of Dryness

Endocrine Emergencies: When Zebras Are Real

Thyroid Storm and Myxedema Coma
DKA/HHS
Adrenal Crisis and Excess

Critical Care Management of the Liver Failure Patient: What the Intensivist Should Know

Critical Care Management of the Acute Liver Failure Patient
Extracorporeal Liver Support for the Failing Liver
Liver Transplantation in Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure: Selection Issues

Changing Heart Failure to Heart Success

Heart Failure Therapies
From Parts List to Assembly Instructions: How to Implement Changes in Therapy

Announcement of the Novel Phoenix Pediatric Sepsis Criteria

Introduction and Project Overview
Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis: A Historic Perspective Provided by Systematic Review
What Pediatric Clinicians Expect in a Pediatric Sepsis Definition
Development and Validation of the Phoenix Pediatric Sepsis Criteria
Stakeholder Consensus and Controversies in Development of the New Phoenix Pediatric Sepsis Criteria
Operationalizing a Sepsis Definition for Children: Think Globally but Act Locally

Controversies in the Delivery of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Children

Anticoagulation in CKRT: Are We Spoiled for Choices?
Liberation From CRRT: Is It an Art or a Science?
Are There Any Quality Indicators That Can Be Used to Assess the Efficiency of the CKRT Program?

Extubating the Pediatric Patient

Best Practices for Spontaneous Breathing Trials
Readiness for Extubation Beyond the SBT
Predicting, Preventing, and Treating Post-Extubation Upper Airway Obstruction

Funded Training

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

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Individual Self-Study Options

For individuals seeking self-study options, Congress Digital is available.

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