27th Annual Challenges in Critical Care: A Multidisciplinary Approach

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Pennsylvania Chapter of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (PASCCM) and Susquehanna Valley Chapter of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (SVAACN)

This annual conference is designed to promote the scientific evaluation of methods of care and to translate current literature into strategies to optimize the care of the critically ill patient.

Physicians, Advanced Practice Clinicians, Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, Pharmacists, Dietitians and Health Care Professionals involved in critical care may benefit from attendance.

• Develop a plan to apply knowledge gained to promote quality care of critically ill patients as provided by the multi-professional team.
• Evaluate evidence-based management strategies in critical care for incorporation into practice.
• Identify areas in critical care for further study, improvement and research.

Case studies and research abstracts are now being accepted. The top three abstracts in each category will deliver a 15-minute podium presentation at the conference. Other accepted abstracts will display a poster at the conference. Winners in each category will receive a cash award sponsored by PASCCM.

Research Abstract Deadline: June 2, 2023

Submit a research abstract here

Case Study Abstract Deadline: June 2, 2023

Submit a case study abstract here

• 7 a.m. | Check-In/Visit Exhibitors and Posters
• 7:45 a.m. | Welcome
• 8 a.m. | Opening Plenary
  Implementation Science: Considerations for the Critically Ill
  Sandra Kane-Gill, PharmD, MSc, FCCM, FCCP

  Objectives

  • Discuss what implementation science is and the need for application.
  • Identify barriers and facilitators to evidence-based guideline implementation using the Behavior Change Wheel.
  • State the use of Acceptability, Practicability, Effectiveness, Affordability, Side-effects and Equity (APPEASE) criteria for deciding on implementation interventions.
• 9 a.m. | Understanding Ventilator Waveforms and Graphics
  Herbert Patrick, MD, MSEE

  Objectives

  • Recognize the graphics of common ventilator modes.
  • Identify ventilator graphics that limit ventilator induced lung injury (VILI).
  • Adjust the patient’s pharmacologic sedation using graphics of ventilator synchrony/dyssynchrony.
• 10:00 a.m. | Break/Visit Exhibits/Visit Posters
• 10:30 a.m. | Advancing Organ Donor Management and Donor Management Centers
  Niels Martin, MD, FACS, FCCM

  Objectives

  • Incorporate specific donor management goals into their care of organ donors.
  • Integrate specific physiologic maneuvers to recruit marginal organs into transplantable organs.
  • Recognize and value the componentry of donor management centers.
• 11:30 a.m. | Providing Remote Aid During a Humanitarian Crisis
  Lewis Kaplan, MD, FACS, FCCP, FCCM

  Objectives

  • Describe the key drivers of remote-only humanitarian aid.
  • List key team members required to provide high-quality and durable remote aid.
  • Illustrate how understanding the specific mission informs the structure of a remote aid approach.
  • Compare and contrast different methods of digital interface, data capture and data analysis while rendering remote aid.
  • Articulate how providing remote aid can influence recovery planning following the resolution of a humanitarian disaster.
• 12:30 p.m. | Lunch/Visit Exhibits/Visit Posters
• 1:30 p.m. | 1A Concurrent Session – Research Poster Presentations To Be Determined / 1B Concurrent Session – Case Study Presentations To Be Determined 
• 2:30 p.m. | Break/Visit Exhibits/Visit Posters
• 2:45 p.m. | 2A Concurrent Session – Multidisciplinary Care for the Mechanically Ventilated Patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) To Reduce Ventilator Associated Events (VAEs)
  Michael Baram, MD
  Elissa Harmon, DNP, RN, CCRN, PHNA-BC
  John Madara, MD
  Cara McDaniel, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCM
  Lauren McDonnell, CRNP
  Kevin Trethaway, RRT

  Objectives

  • Describe what constitutes VAEs.
  • List appropriate strategies used to minimize VAEs.
  • Apply a team-based approach to minimizing VAE complications.

  2B Concurrent Session – All in the Family: Incorporating Patients and Family Members Into Pharmacotherapy 
  Sandra Kane-Gill, PharmD, MSc, FCCM, FCCP

  Objectives

  • Identify key tools to use as a pharmacist or other member of a multidisciplinary team to communicate with the patient’s family members, caregivers or surrogate decision-makers.
  • Discuss medication management scenarios for possible patient and family engagement.
  • Decide how the activities conducted in your ICU rank on the ladder of patient and family engagement.
• 3:45 p.m. | Move Back to General Session
• 3:50 p.m. | Closing Plenary – The Intersection of Critical Care and Virtual Critical Care: Tele Critical Care
  Elizabeth Scruth, PhD, MPH, RN, CCNS, CCRN, FCCM, FCNS, CPHQ

  Objectives

  • Compare and contrast critical care nursing and tele critical care nursing.
  • Define the foundations required to ensure excellence in nursing is maintained in both fields.
  • Describe the value of certification across all areas of critical care.
• 4:50 p.m. | PASCCM Awards for Case Study and Scientific Poster
• 4:55 p.m. | Closing Remarks/Adjournment
• 5 p.m. | PASCCM Business Meeting

Navitha Ramesh, MD, FCCP
Committee Chair
Program Director, Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
UPMC Harrisburg
ICU Medical Director, UPMC Community
UPMC Central PA

Lori Demko MSN, ACNP-BC, CCRN
Committee Vice-Chair
Chief Acute Care Nurse Practitioner UPMC Altoona
Pittsburgh Critical Care Associates, Inc.

Barbara Birriel, PhD, ACNP-BC, FCCM
Assistant Research Professor
Penn State College of Nursing

Sandralee Blosser, MD, FCCM
Chief of Intensivist Development
Pittsburgh Critical Care Associates, Inc.

Lori Cox, MSN, ACNP-BC, CCRN, FCCM
Program Director, Critical Care Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Amanda Holyk, PharmD, BCCCP
Critical Care Clinical Pharmacist
Mount Nittany Medical Center

JoAnne Konick-McMahan, MSN, RN, PCCN-K
Certification Practice Specialist
AACN Certification Corporation
SVAACN Board Member

John Madara, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Program Director, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Niels Martin, MD, FACS, FCCM
Associate Professor of Surgery
Vice Chair, Diversity Equity & Inclusion
Chief, Section of Surgical Critical Care
Director, Traumatology & Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Programs
Department of Surgery; Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Ashley Quintili, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Clinical Specialist – Surgical/Anesthesia ICU
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Erika Smeltz, BSN-RN, ONC, CCRN
Intensive Care Registered Nurse
SVAACN Board Member
Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health

Dana Stauffer, MS, RRT-NPS, LSSBB
Director of Respiratory Care
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Margaret Wojnar, MD, MEd
Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Dan Wu, DO, FACOS, FACS, FCCM
Associate Medical Director, Trauma Program
Penn Medicine Lancaster

Michael Baram, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director of ICU Clinical Trials
Jane and Leonard Korman Respiratory Institute
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Sandra Kane-Gill, PharmD, MSc, FCCP, FCCM
Professor of Pharmacy, Critical Care Medicine, Biomedical Informatics and Clinical Translational Sciences
Critical Care Medication Pharmacist, UPMC
Immediate Past President, Society of Critical Care Medicine

Elissa Harmon, RN, DNP, CCRN, PHNA-BC
Department of Nursing
Coordinator of Patient Care Services Nurse
Medical Intensive Care Unit
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Lewis Kaplan, MD, FACS, FCCP, FCCM
Professor of Surgery
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Department of Surgery
Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery
Past-President, Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), 2020-2021

John Madara, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Program Director, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Niels Martin, MD, FACS, FCCM
Associate Professor of Surgery
Vice Chair, Diversity Equity & Inclusion
Chief, Section of Surgical Critical Care
Director, Traumatology & Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Programs
Department of Surgery; Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Cara McDaniel, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCM
Program Director, PGY2 Pharmacy Residency in Critical Care
Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Critical Care
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Lauren McDonnell, CRNP
Nurse Practitioner, Medical Intensive Care Unit
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Herbert Patrick, MD, MSEE
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Intensivist, Jefferson Health-Northeast

Elizabeth Scruth, PhD, MPH, RN, CCNS, CCRN, FCCM, FCNS, CPHQ
Executive Director: Clinical Quality Programs, Data Analytics and Tele Critical Care
Quality, Risk and Patient Safety
NCAL Kaiser Permanente

Kevin Trethaway, RRT
Respiratory Therapist
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

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Penn State College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC)

Application has been made to the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) for continuing education contact hours for respiratory therapists.

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)

Application has been made.

Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)

This activity is eligible for ACPE credit; see the final CPE activity announcement for specific details.

Patient Safety

This program includes 7 hours of patient safety/risk management education as required by the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine.

The fee is $165 per person and includes the cost of instruction, online handout materials and all listed meals.

PASCCM fee is $65

SVAACN fee is $145

Payment is required at the time of registration. If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at ContinuingEd@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.

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Penn State College of Medicine – Tru by Hilton Hershey Chocolate Avenue
June 2 – Sept. 4, 2023 – $199 Kings/$219 Double Queens
(717) 531-3400

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