AAEM/RSA Introduction to Critical Care in Emergency Medicine (ICCEM) Course

Sunday, April 6, 2025

1:00pm – 5:00pm ET

Location: Trianon - 2nd Level

Add-on Course Director(s)

Matthew Carvey, MD (he/him/his)

Emergency Medicine Resident
MetroHealth/Cleveland Clinic/CWRU
Cleveland, Ohio

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Ava Omidvar, MD, MPH, FP-C (she/her/hers)

Emergency Medicine Resident
University of Maryland
Hanover, Maryland

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Add-On Course Faculty(s)

Arya Hawkins-Zafarnia, MD, MA (he/him/his)

Emergency Medicine Resident
Yale
Milford, Connecticut

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Ryan Kelly, MD, MSc

Emergency Medicine Resident
Memorial Healthcare System
Pembroke Pines, Florida

Disclosure information not submitted.

Disclosure(s):

Matthew Carvey, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Ava Omidvar, MD, MPH, FP-C: No financial relationships to disclose

Arya Hawkins-Zafarnia, MD, MA: No financial relationships to disclose

Room: Trianon - 2nd Level

This course delves into the fundamentals of critical care to prepare medical students and interns for the rigors of the specialty as it pertains to emergency medicine. Flipped classroom, online sessions will include arterial blood gas/CBC/BMP interpretation, oxygen therapy and mechanical ventilation, drug therapy (pertaining to analgesics, sedatives and paralytics), intra-aortic balloon pump therapy and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, pediatric and neonatal critical care, hemodynamic and intracranial pressure monitoring, cardiac pacing and implantable cardiac devices and lastly, fluid therapy and massive transfusion and POCUS ultrasonography. An in-person practical at AAEM25 will include opportunities to practice rapid sequence intubation (RSI), cricothyroidotomy, mechanical ventilation knobology and POCUS ultrasonography.

Due to the longitudinal nature of this course, registration for the 2025 Intro to Critical Care in EM course is handled outside of the AAEM25 registration portal. Registration opened on November 4, 2024 and closed on January 20, 2025. Registration for the 2026 course will open in November 2025. Please see the AAEM/RSA website for more information.

Learning Objectives:

Demonstrate theoretical proficiency in applying critical care concepts in an emergency medicine setting.
Demonstrate practical proficiency in applying critical care concepts in an emergency medicine setting.
Be practically proficient in mechanical ventilation, rapid sequence intubation, point-of-care ultrasonography and cricothyroidotomy.