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0116_SCCM_SoCal Annual Symposium_Live

September 15, 2023

Course Description:

The Symposium is designed to provide a variety of learning experiences that will include topics such as: ECMO initiation in institutions that is not ECMO certified, the importance of team collaboration and communication to optimize patient outcomes, and management of complex patients requiring additional technological support. Symposium presenters will be local critical care experts from multiple disciplines including physicians, nurses, and pharmacists to provide an interprofessional perspective.

Target Audience

Nurse Practitioner (NP)

Nurse, Registered (RN)

Pharmacists (PharmD)

Physicians (MD or DO)

Physician Assistant (PA)

Students of Health Professions

Learning Objectives

- Recognize patients who may be ECMO candidates and require a higher level of care.

- Demonstrate knowledge of prehospital care in patients who develop cardiac arrest.

- Identify patients who are ECMO candidates and execute the process for ECMO support.

- Argue and defend the use of targeted temperature management in post cardiac arrest patients

- Discuss the pros/cons of implementing targeted temperature management and the risks/benefits in patient outcomes

- Recognize medications that may sequester in the ECMO circuit

- Demonstrate understanding of how to appropriately sedate patients on ECMO without over sedating

- Implement the appropriate analgesia and sedation in ECMO patients and use clinical thinking strategies to understand why medications may not be working as we intended (medication sequestration)

- Discuss the differences between RN vs Perfusionist vs RT led ECMO

- Recognize the importance and need for TEE for resuscitation purposes in post cardiac arrest patients

Course summary

Available credit:

6.50 ACPE
Pharmacy Credit - Accreditation Council of Pharmacy Education (ACPE)
Sutter Health designates this Live activity for a maximum of 6.50 of ACPE credit(s). Credits for pharmacists and technicians will be transmitted to CPE Monitor and will be available within 60 days post-activity pending submission of individual NABP e-PID and DOB (mm/dd only). Pharmacists should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
6.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Physician Credit
Sutter Health designates this Live activity for a maximum of 6.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
6.50 Non-Physician Participation Credit
Sutter Health designates this Live activity for a maximum of 6.50 Non-Physician Participation Credit. Non-Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits HOURS™ Continuing Medical Education is acceptable for meeting the continuing education requirements for Pharmacists, Physician Assistants, Psychologists, Registered Nurses, and Respiratory Care Practitioners. For other disciplines, please check with the regulatory board for your discipline to confirm what type of credits meet the continuing education requirements. Continuing education hours for nurses accredited by ANCC, via Joint Accreditation.
6.50 ANCC
Nursing Credit - American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
Sutter Health designates this Live activity for a maximum of 6.50 ANCC contact hour(s). Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
6.50 CA BRN
Nursing Credit - California Board of Registered Nursing (CA BRN)
This activity is approved for 6.50 contact hour(s) by Sutter Health, which is an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing. (Provider Number 17182). Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
6.50 IPCE
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 6.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

Course opens:

09/15/2023

Course expires:

10/13/2023

Event starts:

09/15/2023 - 8:00am PDT

Event ends:

09/15/2023 - 6:00pm PDT

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Rating:

Culturally Appropriate Care Which is Free of Implicit Biases (AB 1195 & 241):

Condella, A., Lindo, E. G., Badulak, J., Johnson, N. J., Maine, R., Mandell, S., Town, J. A., Luks, A. M., Elizaga, S., Bulger, E. M., & Stewart, B. T. (2023). Veno-venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for COVID-19: A Call For System-Wide Checks to Ensure Equitable Delivery For All. ASAIO journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992), 69(3), 272–277. https://doi.org/10.1097/MAT.0000000000001823
Roger, V. L. (2021). Epidemiology of heart failure | circulation research. Epidemiology of Heart Failure A Contemporary Perspective. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.318172

Disclosure of Financial or In-Kind Commercial Support & Conflict of Interest

Vinay Nadkarni, a speaker for this educational activity, serves as an independent contractor for the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). This relationship does not require mitigation as SCCM is an eligible entity as health professions member organizations. Additionally, he is a contributor to research funded by grants from Zoll Medical, Laerdal Foundation, RQI Partners, and Nihon-Kohen, for which his presentation was peer reviewed by a faculty member without ineligible final relationships.

Cassia Yi, a committee member for this educational activity, is an independent contractor for Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO). This relationship does not require mitigation as ELSO is an eligible entity as an international nonprofit consortium of healthcare organizations providing ECMO that provides continuing education, defies EBP guidelines, and maintains a comprehensive registry of ECMO data to aid research and QI initiatives.

Pooja Nawathe, a planner for this educational activity, receives speaking fees from California Simulation Alliance and consulting fees from Edwards Life Sciences. Her planning decisions were peer-reviewed by other members of the planning team to confirm there was not any relevancy to her relationship with Edwards Life Sciences. The California Simulation Alliance is an eligible entity as an organization providing education services only.

No one else involved in the planning or presentation of this educational activity have any relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. No financial or in-kind commercial support was received to produce or promote this educational activity.

– Provider Designee/Verification: Kerri Maya, MSL, RN

The following is a list of commercial sponsors for this activity:

- AbbVie- $2,000

- Cedars Sinai- $2,000

- Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals $2,000

- Spectrum Medical- $2,000

- Cedars Sinai- $3,500

- Zoll Medical- $3,500

Committee Member(s)