The latest release in ACCP’s popular Pharmacotherapy Self-Assessment Program (PSAP) provides important and comprehensive updates on topics in critical care and emergency medicine. The target audience for PSAP 2023 Book 2 (Critical Care and Emergency Medicine) is pharmacotherapy specialists and advanced level clinical pharmacists whose practice involves the direct care and management of critically ill patients in the ICU and emergency department.

Critical Care and Emergency Medicine contains four learning modules with a total available 17.5 continuing pharmacy education (CPE) credits. The book content was developed under the leadership of Faculty Panel Chair Gabrielle Gibson, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCCCP.

The first learning module focuses on evidence-based updates in the management of patients experiencing prescription and non-prescription overdoses and management of alcohol withdrawal. The second module discusses updates on management of fluid and electrolyte disorders including sodium, potassium, and calcium disorders, as well as updates in nutrition support in critically ill patients. The third module is focused on acute agitation, delirium, and sleep, acute dysrhythmias, and perioperative management of critically ill patients. The book concludes with two interactive cases covering current topics including the approach to patients with life-threatening bleeding caused by antithrombotics and rapid-sequence intubation.

Continuing education activities in PSAP cover the most recent published data (past 3–5 years) on a specific therapeutic area or patient-care problem. This content is provided as an electronic book (interactive PDF) with high-level updates designed, as appropriate to the topic, in three formats:

• Traditional review-style chapters
• Interactive cases (a series of webpages, each introduced by a sample case-based question)
• Recorded webcast (PowerPoint presentation; includes PDF of the transcribed narrative)

Every PSAP release comes in two full-color online formats: (1) interactive PDFs you can save to your desktop or print; and (2) an e-media version you can view on an e-reader, tablet, iOS or Android smart phone. Chapters in each release are also provided in audio form (MP3 files) as the popular PSAP Audio Companion. For an additional fee, a one-color softbound print book can be added to these formats and shipped to your address.

All PSAP chapters are fully referenced, with clickable hyperlinks to literature compilers such as PubMed. Other links provide ready access to clinical practice guidelines, official recommendations, and patient assessment tools. Graphic features focus on pivotal studies, patient care scenarios, and take-home points that can be readily integrated into clinical practice.