It is estimated that the content of each CME activity will be relevant and timely to target audience members for up to one year following the activity's release date.

Contemporary Critical Care is a monthly informational newsletter intended for intensivists, critical care medicine residents and other physicians with an interest in the care of critically ill and critically injured patients.

The target audience’s need for this continuing medical education activity is supported by documentation provided through a review of the medical literature, surveys of the target audience, an analysis of the critical care medicine publication market and expert opinion.

This newsletter is intended to serve as a single, comprehensive source on relevant topics that will help keep the target audience abreast of the latest developments in the field of critical care. The newsletter offers educational instruction on clinically relevant topics including but not limited to quality initiatives in the intensive-care unit (ICU), corticosteroids in the ICU, new ventilator management strategies for critically ill patients, glucose control during critical illness, seizure management in the ICU, new strategies for vasopressor therapy, and methods to assess tissue perfusion as a means to improve resuscitation during critical illness.

Contemporary Critical Care is unique in focusing on a specific topic in each issue, providing a comprehensive and practical review while also incorporating the most recent research data pertinent to clinical practice. Practitioners will benefit from up-to-date information provided by experts who have significant “hands-on” experience in the chosen topics.

Practitioners also will have a self-test opportunity to reinforce their learning experience and to obtain CME credits. An evaluation assessment questionnaire following the CME quiz in each issue will confirm the quality of each educational activity, the value and use of the learned material in their practice, confirm the credit designation and activity expiration dates, gauge the fairness and balance of each activity, and provide practitioners with the opportunity to suggest topics for future issues.

Given the increasing clinical demands and reduced time to attend live educational programs and conferences, Contemporary Critical Care will provide a convenient home/office-based alternative for professionals seeking continuing medical education.

Faculty and author affiliations and financial disclosure information are procured and printed prior to each CME article in each issue.

This CME program is intended to update practitioners on recent developments in critical care, with particular emphasis on those areas of development that have an immediate impact on patient care. The CME program will cover a broad range of topics relevant to the contemporary practice of critical care medicine, including but not limited to quality initiatives in the intensive-care unit (ICU), corticosteroids in the ICU, new ventilator management strategies for critically ill patients, glucose control during critical illness, seizure management in the ICU, new strategies for vasopressor therapy, and methods to assess tissue perfusion as a means to improve resuscitation during critical illness.

Specific learning objectives for each CME activity are procured and printed prior to the CME article in each issue of Contemporary Critical Care.

The Lippincott CME Institute, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

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The Contemporary Critical Care CME Program enables subscribers to earn up to 24 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM available through the twelve annual issues of Contemporary Critical Care. The article published in each issue throughout the year is designated course reading. To earn CME credit, a participant must read each designated CME article and complete the quiz and evaluation assessment survey on the enclosed form, answering at least 70% of the quiz questions correctly. A participant must elect the best answer and place a check mark or an X mark in the corresponding space on the enclosed answer form sheet. Participants are requested not to fill in the answer box completely. Make a photocopy of the completed answer form for your own files and mail the original answer form in the enclosed postage-paid business reply envelope for receipt by LCMEI, Inc. by the expiration date printed in each issue. For more information, call (800) 787-8981. The CME credits are included in the subscription price.

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Each individual CME activity will expire within one year of the activity’s release date.