Course:

Critical Care 1606

Specialty:	Critical Care	Format:	Text
Course #:	10617	Price:	$20.00
Release date:	2012-06-01	Valid through:	2015-06-01
Publication:	This activity originally appeared in Critical Care Alert (CME).
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Target Audience:

This educational activity is intended for critical care physicians and nurses.

Sponsor:

This activity is sponsored by AHC Media.

Accreditation:

AHC Media is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

AHC Media designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Faculty

Editor David J. Pierson, MD Professor Emeritus Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of Washington Seattle Nurse Planner Leslie A. Hoffman, PhD, RN Department of Acute/Tertiary Care School of Nursing University of Pittsburgh Peer Reviewer William Thompson, MD Associate Professor of Medicine University of Washington Seattle Executive Editor Leslie Coplin AHC Media Managing Editor Neill Kimball AHC Media

Subjects:	Improving Patient Safety During Postoperative Handoffs Audit Feedback Reduced Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Use and Incidence of C. difficile Infections ICU Privacy Curtains are Contaminated with Potentially Pathogenic Bacteria Systemic Antifungal Therapy in ICU Patients Without Documented Invasive Fungal Infection Hospital Cultural and Organizational Characteristics Correlate with Important Mortality Differences in Managing Acute Myocardial Infarction
Objectives:	Identify the particular clinical, legal, or scientific issues related to critical care Describe how those issues affect physicians, nurses, health care workers, hospitals, or the health care industry in general Cite solutions to the problems associated with those issues
Financial Disclosure:
Critical Care Alert's Editor David J. Pierson, MD, Nurse Planner Leslie A. Hoffman, PhD, RN, Peer Reviewer William Thompson, MD, Executive Editor Leslie Coplin, and Managing Editor Neill Kimball report no financial relationships relevant to this field of study. Copyright 2012 AHC Media. All rights reserved.

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