If you plan to attend this course in conjunction with Congress, register at www.sccm.org/Congress. If you are already registered for Congress and would like to add this course, please modify your existing Congress registration. If you wish to attend this course and NOT attend Congress, please add this item to your cart.

Keep up with the continuing changes in coding and billing with this half-day educational course. Topics include evaluation and management coding and documentation, critical care coding, procedures and modifiers, how documentation plays a key role in supporting medical necessity for critical care services, and coding case studies. Time is also allocated for questions and answers. Attendees receive the accompanying book.

Learning Objectives

• Assess techniques to implement guideline recommendations into clinical practice on the admission, discharge, and triage process for pediatric patients in the ICU
• Evaluate and determine applicability of the new recommendation that hemodynamic support of neonates and children with septic shock be addressed at the institutional level via their own adopted or home-grown bundles rather than only at the practitioner level

Sessions

Guidelines for Admission, Discharge, and Triage for the Pediatric ICU and Levels of Care
Larry Frankel, MD, FCCM

AACM Clinical Practice Parameters for Hemodynamic Support of Pediatric and Neonatal Shock
Joseph Carcillo, MD

Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support: Pediatric Joint Guideline with SCCM and A.S.P.E.N.
Nilesh Mehta

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Learning Objectives

• Review the unique characteristics of the new antiplatelet and antithrombotic agents and understand indications and contraindications of their use
• Explore benefits and potential risks for antiplatelet agents and anticoagulant agents
• Discuss approaches to managing critical bleeding and reversal strategies to chemical anticoagulants/antiplatelet agents

Sessions

Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants
John Lewin III, MBA, PharmD, FCCM

New Antiplatelets Agents: Thyenopyridines
William Dager, BCPS, PharmD, MCCM

Emergent Management of Bleeding and Reversal of Anticoagulant and Antiplatelet Agents.
Truman Milling, Jr., MD

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If you plan to attend this course in conjunction with Congress, register at www.sccm.org/Congress. If you are already registered for Congress and would like to add this course, please modify your existing Congress registration. If you wish to attend this course and NOT attend Congress, please add this item to your cart.

Enhance and update your critical care knowledge by attending this two-day multidisciplinary course, which will highlight a variety of topics applicable to the intensive care unit setting. The interactive format will include presentations on select topics, including Mechanical Circulatory Support, Palliative Care, Difficult Ethical Cases, Reversing Oral Anticoagulants, and Antipsychotics in the ICU. Panel discussions provide the opportunity for attendees to ask questions of the experts. Attendees receive an accompanying eBook written by the faculty.

Learning Objectives

• List the objective clinical tools needed to arrive at a DNC diagnosis, and describe the management and organ support (hemodynamics, electrolytes, endocrine imbalances) for DNC patients
• Articulate the indications and pros/cons for ancillary testing to support a DNC diagnosis
• Explain techniques and authoritative and unambiguous terms used by experts to appropriately engage families and surrogates in the discussion of DNC, and list the related common cross-cultural, ethnic and religious sensitivities

The History and Criteria of Determining Death by Neurological Criteria
David Greer, MD, FAHA, FNCS, FAAN, FCCM

Common Pitfalls in Brain Death Testing, Ancillary Testing and Family Communication
Jose Javier Provencio, MD, FAAN, FNCS, FCCM

Moderator
David C. Kaufman, MD, FCCM

System Requirements
Audio speakers
PC-based attendees: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista
Macintosh®-based attendees: Mac OS®X 10.4(Tiger®) or newer
Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Early Diagnosis and Individualized Management of Focal Seizures in the Intensive Care Unit, is part 1 of the series, Making the Connection: Improving ICU Healthcare Teams' Response and Management of Focal Seizures. This two-part complimentary interactive educational program is designed to improve the diagnosis and management of focal seizures in the intensive care unit (ICU).

During part 1, expert faculty discuss current and emerging therapies and strategies to overcome specific epilepsy-related challenges in the critical care patient.

This activity is supported by an educational grant from UCB, Inc., and is jointly provided by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare.

Physicians, nurses, and pharmacists are eligible to receive 0.5 hours of continuing medical education/continuing education credit. This opportunity is available through June 2018.

Learning Objectives

• Identify and manage ICU patients that are at risk for seizures
• Compare the individual agents, pharmacokinetics, adverse events, and dosing considerations to create individualized treatment plans for epilepsy

Faculty

Selim R. Benbadis, MD
Professor of Neurology and Director,
Comprehensive Epilepsy Program
University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital
Tampa, Florida, USA

Stephen Hantus, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director of Continuous EEG and Epilepsy Consult Service
Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center
Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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