Course:

Critical Care 1506

Specialty:	Critical Care	Format:	Text
Course #:	9765	Price:	$20.00
Release date:	2011-06-01	Valid through:	2014-06-01
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 Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Harborview Medical Center 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 Associate Editor Richard J. Wall, MD, MPH Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Disorders Medicine Southlake Clinic Valley Medical Center Renton, WA Andrew M. Luks, MD Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of Washington Seattle Saadia R. Akhtar, MD, MSc St. Luke's Idaho Pulmonary Associates Boise

Subjects:	Use of Therapeutic Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest Should We Look at the Stomach with Ultrasound Prior to Intubation? Long-Term Psychological Effects of Critical Illness Does COPD Worsen Outcomes When Mechanical Ventilation is Required for Other Reasons?
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, Associate Editors Richard J. Wall, MD, MPH, Andrew M. Luks, MD , and Saadia R. Akhtar, MD, MSc report no financial relationships related to this field of study. Copyright 2011 AHC Media. All rights reserved.

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