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ABIM MOC Activity ID

1/28/2025 - Medical Grand Rounds: Year in Review - Critical Care Medicine

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

    • Increase awareness of new definitions of ARDS.
    • Reduce disparities by increasing recognition of occult hypoxemia in patients with darker skin tones.
    • Increase adoption of best practices for intubating critically ill patients.
    • Improve evidence-based resuscitation of patients with sepsis.
    • Expand adoption of corticosteroids in patients with sepsis and pneumonia.

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

    Suggested Additional Reading:
  • Matthay et al. A New Global Definition of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Am J Resp Crit Care Med. January 2024.
  • Sjoding et al. Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement. NEJM 2020.
  • Prekker et al. Video versus Direct Laryngoscopy for Tracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults. NEJM June 2023.
  • CLOVERS trial. Early Restrictive or Liberal Fluid Management for Sepsis-Induced Hypotension. NEJM January 2023.
  • Heming et al. Hydrocortisone plus fludrocortisone for community acquired pneumonia-related septic shock: a subgroup analysis of the APROCCHSS phase 3 randomised trial. Lancet Resp Med. May 2024.

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


Physician (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:
Ian Barbash, MD, MS — Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
Megan Fitzpatrick, MD — Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.