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Friday, February 21, 2025
6:00am – 5:30pm Eastern Time
Critical Care Ultrasound: Adult (Friday)

6:00am – 5:30pm Eastern Time
Critical Care Ultrasound: Pediatric and Neonatal (Friday)

6:00am – 5:30pm Eastern Time
Critical Care Ultrasound: Life Support and Sepsis

8:00am – 5:00pm Eastern Time
ELSO Extracorporeal Membranous Oxygenation (ECMO) (Friday)

Saturday, February 22, 2025
6:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
Critical Care Ultrasound: Advanced Echocardiography (Saturday Morning)

6:00am – 5:30pm Eastern Time
Critical Care Ultrasound: Adult (Saturday)

6:00am – 5:30pm Eastern Time
Critical Care Ultrasound: Pediatric and Neonatal (Saturday)

6:45am – 5:30pm Eastern Time
Airway and Mechanical Ventilation Management for the Critically Ill Patient

7:00am – 4:00pm Eastern Time
Current Concepts in Pediatric Critical Care

7:00am – 6:00pm Eastern Time
Leadership and Management Skills to Enhance Your Professional Role

7:00am – 7:00pm Eastern Time
SCCM Discovery Critical Care Innovation Incubator

8:00am – 5:00pm Eastern Time
ELSO Extracorporeal Membranous Oxygenation (ECMO) (Saturday)

12:30pm – 5:30pm Eastern Time
Critical Care Ultrasound: Advanced Echocardiography (Saturday Afternoon)

1:00pm – 5:00pm Eastern Time
Deep Dive: An Introduction to AI in Critical Care Medicine

Sunday, February 23, 2025
8:00am – 9:00am Eastern Time
2025 SCCM Congress Opening Session and Presidential Address

9:00am – 9:30am Eastern Time
Advancing Health at the Speed of AI (William C. Shoemaker Honorary Lecture)

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
ECMO for Respiratory Failure: Beyond Initiation to Separation
Pulmonary

10:30am – 11:30am Eastern Time
Bridging Global Research: Leveraging Discovery's Data Science Campaign and WHO Registries for Breakthroughs

10:30am – 11:30am Eastern Time
Year in Review: Surgery
Professional Development and Education

10:30am – 11:30am Eastern Time
Hot Topics in Modern Cardiac Arrest Management
Resuscitation

10:30am – 11:30am Eastern Time
Year in Review: Pediatrics
Pediatrics

10:30am – 11:30am Eastern Time
Situational Awareness, Common Operational Picture, and Team Dynamics in Clinical Deterioration
Quality and Patient Safety

10:30am – 12:30pm Eastern Time
From Bench to Bedside and East to West: Updates in Critical Care From China and the U.S.: Joint SCCM/China Critical Care Society Session

10:30am – 12:30pm Eastern Time
Flying High With Systems Thinking: The Paper Airplane Factory Board Game Interactive Session
Professional Development and Education

11:45am – 12:45pm Eastern Time
Sepsis Care: Personalized or Protocolized?
Sepsis

11:45am – 12:45pm Eastern Time
Pro/Con: The New Definition of ARDS: Does It Matter?
Pulmonary

11:45am – 12:45pm Eastern Time
Avoiding the Multiplication of Multiorgan Failure in AKI
Renal

11:45am – 12:45pm Eastern Time
Year in Review: Neurosciences
Neuroscience

11:45am – 12:45pm Eastern Time
Pediatric Critical Asthma: Clinical Practice Guidelines
Pulmonary

11:45am – 12:45pm Eastern Time
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There: Productivity Guilt and Its Impact on Clinicians
Behavioral Health and Well-Being

12:00pm – 12:30pm Eastern Time
Test Session

3:15pm – 4:15pm Eastern Time
Caring for Patients, Families, and Each Other: Humanizing ICU Care for All
Patient and Family Support

3:15pm – 4:15pm Eastern Time
Joint SCCM/ESPNIC Session: What's New in Pediatric Liver Intensive Care?
Pediatrics

3:15pm – 4:15pm Eastern Time
Managing Challenging Patient-Ventilator Interactions
Pulmonary

3:15pm – 4:15pm Eastern Time
Discovery PCORI: Addressing Barriers to Patient and Family Engagement in Research
Research

3:15pm – 4:15pm Eastern Time
From Struggle to Success: Overcoming Immigration Hurdles in Pursuit of Critical Care Excellence (Interactive Discussion)
Professional Development and Education

3:15pm – 4:15pm Eastern Time
Year in Review: Nursing
Professional Development and Education

3:15pm – 4:15pm Eastern Time
Firearm Violence: The Intensivist's Role in an American Pandemic
Trauma

4:30pm – 5:30pm Eastern Time
Abstract Research Awards

4:30pm – 5:30pm Eastern Time
Looking to the Future With Critical Care Respiratory Therapists: A Joint AARC/SCCM Session

4:30pm – 5:30pm Eastern Time
Image Interpretation in Critical Care Ultrasound: Cognitive Skills (Guideline)
Procedures

4:30pm – 5:30pm Eastern Time
The Bull in the China Shop: Workload Theory in the Multidisciplinary ICU
Professional Development and Education

4:30pm – 5:30pm Eastern Time
Year in Review: Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Pharmacology

4:30pm – 5:30pm Eastern Time
Contestation of Pediatric Brain Death: Practical Strategies for Clinicians and Hospital Personnel
Ethics End of Life

4:30pm – 5:30pm Eastern Time
Still in Shock! Challenges and Controversies in Refractory Shock Management
Cardiovascular

4:30pm – 5:30pm Eastern Time
The New Frontier: The Role of AI and Translational Research in Global Outreach Critical Care
Epidemiology Outcomes

Monday, February 24, 2025
8:00am – 8:45am Eastern Time
Climate Change: Why Health Systems Matter Now (Ake Grenvik Honorary Lecture)

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
How to Become an ACCM Fellow

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
The Impact of Health Disparities in Care Delivery: Joint SCCM/CCSC Session

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
SCCM Discovery Data Science Campaign and NIH Bridge2AI: The Future Is Now!
Professional Development and Education

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
Going Green: Creating a Sustainable ICU
Administration

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
Future Strategies for ECMO Anticoagulation
Hematology

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
Meeting the Dynamic Needs of the Pediatric ICU Population: Regionalization, Resources, and Capacity
Pediatrics

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
Year in Review: Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Care
Resuscitation

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
A Line in the Sand: Antibiotic Breakpoints in Critically Ill Patients
Infection

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
Global Outreach in Critical Care Medicine: Do We Need It?
Epidemiology Outcomes

11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
Year in Review: Internal Medicine

11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
It's Getting Hot in Here: New Strategies for Fever of Unknown Origin in the Critically Ill
Infection

11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
Pro/Con: Split-Shared Billing in the ICU: Should We Bill Solely Under the APP?
Administration

11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
Understanding Brain Injury During Pediatric ECMO
Neuroscience

11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
Treatment Strategies for Opioid Use Disorder in the ICU
Pharmacology

12:00pm – 1:25pm Eastern Time
Advanced Practice Providers Luncheon

1:30pm – 2:15pm Eastern Time
Tissue Perfusion and Microcirculation in Shock (Peter Safar Honorary Lecture)

1:30pm – 2:15pm Eastern Time
Guidelines for the Management of Heatstroke

1:30pm – 2:15pm Eastern Time
You Don't Have to Go Home, but You Can't Stay Here
Pediatrics

1:30pm – 2:15pm Eastern Time
Pulse Oximetry as a Source of Racial Bias in the ICU: Update From the New International Standards
Pulmonary

3:00pm – 4:00pm Eastern Time
ACCM Convocation and SCCM Awards Presentation

3:15pm – 4:15pm Eastern Time
Patient- and Family-Centered Care or Resort Management: Is the Customer Always Right?
Patient and Family Support

3:15pm – 4:15pm Eastern Time
Changing Market Forces in the Critical Care Workforce: Physicians, APPs, Pharmacists, and Nurses
Administration

3:15pm – 4:15pm Eastern Time
Year in Review: Respiratory Care
Pulmonary

3:15pm – 4:15pm Eastern Time
De-Resuscitation: When and How to Empty the Tank
Sepsis

3:15pm – 4:15pm Eastern Time
Who Is on the SWAT Team: Does the Rapid Response Team Need a Doc?
Resuscitation

3:15pm – 4:15pm Eastern Time
Management of Inhalation Injury in Children: What Pediatric Intensivists Need to Know
Pediatrics

3:15pm – 4:15pm Eastern Time
The Safer Hospital of Tomorrow
Quality and Patient Safety

Tuesday, February 25, 2025
8:00am – 8:45am Eastern Time
Why the 4Ms Approach to Critical Care Improves Quality: Lessons from the Age-Friendly Health Systems Movement (Norma Shoemaker Honorary Lecture)

8:00am – 8:45am Eastern Time
Critical Care 2030: A Too-Long Wish List (Lifetime Achievement Award)

8:00am – 8:45am Eastern Time
Pro/Con: Early Tracheostomy in Adults: How Soon Is Too Soon?
Procedures

8:00am – 8:45am Eastern Time
Controversies in Liver Intensive Care
Pediatrics

8:00am – 8:45am Eastern Time
My Patient Won't Wake Up, Now What? An Approach to Altered Mental Status in the ICU
Neuroscience

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
Year in Review: Physician Assistant

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
The 4Ms for Critical Care: Practical Tips for Creating an Aging-Friendly ICU

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
Why Is My Patient Hypotensive? Mechanisms Underlying Development and Persistence of Shock
Shock Non Sepsis

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
Can Learning Healthcare Systems Bridge the Data Generation Gap to Inform Critical Care of Children?
Research

9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
Critical Care and Perioperative Implications of New Diabetic Medications
Endocrine

11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
Goal-Concordant Care, Palliative Care, and End-of-Life Care in the Older ICU Patient

11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
Conundrums in Neurocritical Care Practice
Neuroscience

11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
There's Blood Everywhere but in the Patient: Transfusion Issues in Trauma Patients
Trauma

11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
Year in Review: Research

11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
International Pediatric Critical Care Trials: Challenges, Barriers, and Opportunities
Research

11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
Advanced Management of Rheumatologic Emergencies in the ICU
Immunology

12:00pm – 1:25pm Eastern Time
Educational Leadership Luncheon: Incorporating Resilience, Wellness, and Self-Care Into Critical Care Training and Practice

1:30pm – 2:15pm Eastern Time
The Remarkable Potential of Xenotransplantation (Max Harry Weil Honorary Lecture)

1:30pm – 2:15pm Eastern Time
ACCM Distinguished Investigator, Discovery Grant Recipient, and SCCM-Weil Research Grant Recipient

1:30pm – 2:15pm Eastern Time
SCCM and ASHP Guideline for Prevention of Stress-Related Upper GI Bleeding: More Than a Gut Feeling

1:30pm – 2:15pm Eastern Time
Optimizing Analgesia Strategies in the Older Trauma Patient

1:30pm – 2:15pm Eastern Time
Sympathetic Storming: How to Forecast the Weather of Neurologic Injury Sequelae
Pediatrics

2:30pm – 3:30pm Eastern Time
A Quarter-Century of Delirium in the ICU: Where Are We Now?

2:30pm – 3:30pm Eastern Time
The Delicate Dance Between the PICU and the Ward: Keeping the Patient Safe While Utilizing Resources Wisely
Pediatrics

2:30pm – 3:30pm Eastern Time
Essential Emergency and Critical Care: The Foundation of Global Critical Care
Quality and Patient Safety

2:30pm – 3:30pm Eastern Time
Discovery: How to Extract Data From EHRs and Clinical Databases
Research

2:30pm – 3:30pm Eastern Time
From Basics to Breakthroughs: Navigating the Role of Artificial intelligence in Critical Care
Quality and Patient Safety

2:30pm – 3:30pm Eastern Time
Year in Review: Telecritical Care Medicine

2:30pm – 4:30pm Eastern Time
Flying High With Systems Thinking: The Paper Airplane Factory Board Game Interactive Session (Repeat)
Professional Development and Education

3:45pm – 4:45pm Eastern Time
Year in Review: Anesthesiology

3:45pm – 4:45pm Eastern Time
At the Intersection of Age and Injury: Special Considerations in the Care of the Older Patient With Traumatic Injury

3:45pm – 4:45pm Eastern Time
Unlocking the Magic of Wellness: A Disney-Inspired Approach to Critical Care Clinician Training
Behavioral Health and Well-Being

3:45pm – 4:45pm Eastern Time
Critical Care Chronobiology: Should We Reset the Clocks?
Epidemiology Outcomes

3:45pm – 4:45pm Eastern Time
Managing Failing Liver in the Critically Ill: A Multipronged Approach
GI and Nutrition

3:45pm – 4:45pm Eastern Time
Addressing the Z-Axis of Critical Illness: Sex and Development as Variables
Pediatrics