Management of Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

• Series Overview
• Program Content
• Faculty
• Target Audience and Learning Objectives
• CPE Credit
• BCCCP & BCPS Specialty Recertification Credit
• Technical Requirements
• Fees

Clinical Reasoning Series is one component of the professional development program developed by ACCP and approved for the recertification by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) for the recertification of Board Certified Critical Care Pharmacists (BCCCPs) and Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialists (BCPSs).

This educational series explores cutting-edge, contemporary therapeutic topics, and demonstrates scientifically sound clinical reasoning and decision-making. It employs learning activities designed to advance the participants’ skills and abilities to critically evaluate the scientific evidence and to effectively incorporate into daily practice significant findings that lead to effective and safe patient care.

“Management of Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome” will provide an in-depth analysis of current strategies for the management of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, as well as discuss the implications for pharmacists’ patient care services.

“Management of Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome” covers the following content:

• Overview of epidemiology and pathophysiology of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
• Diagnosis, etiology, and treatment goals of ARDS
• Ventilator management: standard and alternative strategies
• Therapies that have been tried and failed
• Fluid management
• Use of prone positioning and neuromuscular blocking agents for ARDS
• Salvage therapies employed for severe ARDS
• Long-term outcomes of survivors

	Mitchell Buckley, PharmD, FASHP, FCCM, FCCP, BCPS, BCCCP Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Banner University Medical Center Phoenix, Arizona
	Jeffrey P. Gonzales, PharmD, FCCM, BCPS, BCCCP University of Maryland College Park, Maryland
	Justin Muir, PharmD Clinical Pharmacy Manager New York Presbyterian Hospital New York City, New York

Clinical Pharmacists, BCCCPs, and BCPSs providing care to patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.

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

1. Describe the epidemiology and pathophysiology of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS);
2. Discuss diagnosis, etiology and overall treatment goals in the management of patients with ARDS;
3. Critically appraise the published literature surrounding the management of ARDS including ventilator and fluid management and use of neuromuscular blocking agents and prone positioning;
4. Select appropriate salvage therapies including the use of corticosteroids, inhaled vasodilators, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in patients with severe ARDS, and;
5. Design treatment regimens that optimize patient outcomes.

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: 0217-0000-17-163-H01-P.

To earn continuing pharmacy education (CPE) credit and to receive your continuing pharmacy education statement of credit for this activity, participants must successfully complete a Web-based posttest by October 10, 2020. Partial credit is not available for this activity.

To be eligible for 6.0 CPE hours of recertification credit, BCCCPs and BCPSs must attend all 6.0 contact hours of live programming and successfully complete a Web‐based posttest by December 31, 2017. Partial credit is not available for this activity.

ACCP, as the official provider approved by BPS, will record and report recertification credit earned for this activity directly to BPS.

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