Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit

• Program Overview
• Program Content
• Faculty
• CPE Credit
• Target Audience and Objectives
• Learning Objectives
• Technical Requirements
• Fees

From Theory to Bedside: Clinical Reasoning Series is one component of the professional development program developed by ACCP and approved by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) for the continuing education of clinical pharmacists and Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS).

This education series explores cutting-edge, contemporary therapeutic topics, and demonstrates scientifically sound clinical reasoning and decision-making. It provides participants with active learning exercises designed to advance their skills and abilities to critically evaluate scientific evidence and clinical trials and to effectively incorporate into daily practice significant findings that lead to effective and safe patient care.

Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit” provides an overview of contemporary strategies for the assessment and optimal management of pain, agitation, and delirium that help inform patient care decisions.

"Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit" covers the following content:

• Optimizing Analgesia in the Critically Ill
• Optimizing the Use of Sedatives in the ICU: An Evidence-Based Approach
• Approaches to the Prevention, Identification, and Management of Delirium
• Patient Cases and Panel Discussion

	Asad Patanwala, Pharm.D., BCPS Associate Professor University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Emergency Medicine Pharmacist University of Arizona Medical Center Tucson, Arizona
	Lee Skrupky, Pharm.D., BCPS Clinical Pharmacist Surgery, Trauma, Burn ICU Barnes-Jewish Hospital St. Louis, Missouri
	Joanna Stollings, Pharm.D., BCPS MICU Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Delirium and Cognitive Impairment Study Group Pharmacist Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, Tennessee

The American College of Clinical Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This is an application-based activity; Activity Number: 0217-0000-13-110-H01-P.

To earn continuing pharmacy education credit and to receive your continuing pharmacy education statement of credit for this activity, participants must successfully complete a Web-based posttest by October 12, 2016. Partial credit is not available for this activity.

Statements of continuing education credit are available at CPE Monitor within 3 business days of successful completion of the posttest.

BCPS Continuing Education Credit

To be eligible for 6.0 CPE hours of recertification credit, BCPSs must successfully complete a Web-based posttest by November 30, 2013. Partial credit is not available for this activity.

**This program is no longer available for specialty recertification credit**

The target audience for this program is clinical pharmacists and BCPSs seeking continuing education credit.

At the conclusion of the program, the participant should be able to:

1. Compare and contrast the various agents and strategies used in the management of pain, agitation, and delirium (PAD) in the intensive care unit (ICU).
2. Use validated scales to assess, monitor, and optimize the management of PAD in the ICU.
3. Incorporate screening tools to recognize delirium in the ICU.
4. Develop an evidence-based plan for the optimal management of PAD in the ICU.
5. Incorporate pharmacoeconomic principles to guide patient care decisions.
6. Apply 2013 PAD guideline recommendations to clinical practice.

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