ICU Liberation

Get with the guidelines - Learn ICU Liberation with Northern California Chapter of the Society of Critical Care Medicine!

The ICU Liberation Bundle has been shown to improve quality outcomes for critically ill patients after they leave the ICU.  It offers targeted strategies focused on managing a patient’s pain and sedation needs, shortening the duration of mechanical ventilation, reducing the prevalence of delirium and coma, implementing early mobility to prevent muscle weakness, and including families as members of the care team.

The two‐day course, developed by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), incorporates recommendations from the pain, agitation/sedation, delirium, immobility, and sleep disruption (PADIS) guidelines and provides implementation strategies for the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F).  Developed by international experts, the ICU Liberation course is designed for the whole ICU team and allows institutions to provide uniform patient management training for their clinicians of all disciplines.

Our course includes an electronic and hard copy textbook, precourse online pretest to assess baseline knowledge, live in-person lectures along with skills stations to reinforce your knowledge of ICU liberation, all by local and national experts.  Modules include:

Critical Care History: The Building of the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F)

• Integration of Good Sleep Hygiene
• Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
• A: Assess, Prevent, and Manage Pain
• B: Both Spontaneous Awakening Trials and Spontaneous Breathing Trials
• C: Choice of Analgesia and Sedation
• D: Delirium: Assess, Prevent, and Manage
• E: Early Mobility and Exercise
• F: Family Engagement and Empowerment

Continuing medical education credits up to 15 hours for course are available via SCCM NorCal Chapter through our collaboration with American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).  AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, which is recognized by many credit-granting organizations including American Academy of Physician Assistants, American Nurses Credentialing Center, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board.  All participants receive a certificate of course completion from SCCM National.

Course features:

• In-person learning format
• Interactive presentations
• Simulation sessions for realistic training
• Online pretest due one week before course, online posttest can be done after course - more course time for interactive learning
• Companion textbook (electronic and hard copy provided)
• Certificate of successful course completion from SCCM National
• Access to additional ICU Liberation initiative resources
• Continuing education credit hours from SCCM NorCal Chapter

Student to faculty ratio is no higher than 6:1 for optimal learning experience.

Be an ICU Liberation leader and learn how to implement this at your home institution!  Sign up today!