COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Critical Care Grand Rounds is a monthly multidisciplinary conference series of which the objective is to update and provide informative lectures of timely topics geared to enhance the critical care practice and improve patient care. Experts within Baptist Health South Florida System and visiting professors deliver presentations with specialties related to ICU care.  

TARGET AUDIENCE:
Critical Care Physicians, Cardiologists, Surgeons, Anesthesiologists, Emergency Medicine Physicians, Nephrologists, Pulmonologists, Infectious Disease Physicians, Neurologists, Gastroenterologists, Hospitalists, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, Pharmacists and other interested healthcare providers.  

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Recognize the components of the science of safety and quality improvement and how to implement them in practice
• Demonstrate competence in diagnosis, management and integration of pathophysiologic processes across the spectrum of critical illness.
• Recognize and debate the importance of palliative care and medical ethics as a crucial component of critical care practice.
• Describe how to process information from multidisciplinary critical care reviews and critically discuss and exchange key points that may be integrated into practice.
• Recognize, differentiate and develop the roles of nursing, pharmacology and respiratory therapy in the multidisciplinary approach to critical care practice.

FACULTY AND DISCLOSURES:

Laiqua Khalid, M.D., conference director of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Arlene Torres and Elizabeth Prol – Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development, and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies*

*Ineligible companies - Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Disclosure Policy and Disclaimer

ACCREDITATION STATEMENTS AND CREDITS

Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.

Baptist Health South Florida designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.   

This activity has been approved for 1 credit hour, CE Broker Course #20-942286, by the Florida Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistants.  

This activity has also been approved for 1 credit for Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Pharmacists and Techs and Respiratory Therapists. Baptist Health South Florida CE Broker Provider #50-182.

American Board of Surgery - Maintenance of Certification (MOC) - Accredited CME - Surgical Critical Care, General Surgery

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

Successful completion of this course is submitted to specialty boards through the ACCME's PARS system.