Critical Care 2014-12 - Critical Care Alert

Target Audience:

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

Accreditation:

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation:

This activity has been approved for 1.0 nursing contact hours using a 50-minute contact hour.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 14749, for 1.0 Contact Hours.

Nurses licensed in California should retain this credit letter for four years.

Faculty Listing:

Editor
David J. Pierson, MD
Professor Emeritus
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle

Nurse Planner
Leslie A. Hoffman, PhD, RN
Professor Emeritus
Nursing and Clinical & Translational Science
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

Associate Editors
Saadia R. Akhtar, MD, MSc
St. Luke's Idaho Pulmonary Associates
Boise

Richard J. Wall, MD, MPH
Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Disorders Medicine,
Southlake Clinic,
Valley Medical Center,
Renton, WA

Authors
Eric C. Walter, MD, MSc
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
Northwest Permanente and Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center,
Portland

Richard H. Kallet, MS, RRT, FAARC, FCCM
Director of Quality Assurance,
Respiratory Care Services,
San Francisco General Hospital

Betty T. Tran MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Subjects:

Assessment of Pain in Non-vocal or Unresponsive ICU Patients
The Choosing Wisely ® Top 5 List in Critical Care Medicine
Can the Physical Layout of an ICU Influence Delirium Rates?
Do Arterial Catheters Improve Patient Care in the ICU?

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, Managing Editor Neill Kimball, and Authors Eric C. Walter, MD, Richard H. Kallet, MS, and Betty T. Tran MD, report no financial relationships relevant to this field of study.

Critical Care 2014-12 - Critical Care Alert - Dec 01, 2014