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Saturday, March 22, 2025
Registration details coming soon!
About the Inaugural Critical Care Symposium
The 2025 inaugural Critical Care Symposium at Nova Southeastern University is designed to provide vital critical care updates to pharmacists who are actively practicing in acute care settings and those who are seeking to expand their understanding of critical care pharmacy. The curriculum features didactic and panel-based discussions led by local and national practice experts. The intent of this program is to keep pharmacists informed of general critical care principles and timely updates in critical care best practices. In addition to educational programming, there will be an opportunity to network with critical care practitioners across the country through live and virtual programming.
We are expecting approximately 100 pharmacists representing emergency medicine, critical care, inpatient pharmacists, and other practice settings. Membership within a professional organization is not required, and in-training pharmacists (e.g., residents and students) are also welcome to participate.
All those involved in the planning and delivery of this accredited continuing pharmacy education activity will address any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies that they may have at the meeting.
The registration fee for this program is $89.
We will not be issuing refunds for the registration fee.
If you are unable to attend in person, your registration can be transferred to the virtual Zoom option. Please contact carsten@nova.edu to arrange this change.
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Inaugural Critical Care Symposium
NSU Davie Campus, Health Professions Division
Program Co-Chairs: Karen Berger, Pharm.D. and Melissa Santibañez, Pharm.D.
| 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Industry Networking and Refreshments |
Browse pharmaceutical industry displays during this networking session. |
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8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. |
Welcome: Introduction and Program Overview
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Karen Berger, Pharm.D. and Melissa Santibañez, Pharm.D. |
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8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. 8:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. |
Pharmacist Critical Care Primers |
The goal of this session is to provide an overview of commonly encountered ICU devices and modalities pertinent to the pharmacist’s scope of practice. |
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10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Break |
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10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Guideline Updates |
The goal of this session is to summarize recent clinical practice guideline updates for critically ill patients, including glycemic control, rapid sequence intubation, and stress ulcer prophylaxis. |
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12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch and Industry Displays |
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1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
Hemostasis Controversies |
The goal of this session is to describe and present current controversies associated with principles of hemostasis, including the use of viscoelastic testing in critically ill patients and anticoagulation reversal strategies in major bleeding. |
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2:30 p.m. – 2:45 a.m. |
Break |
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2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. |
Steroids in the ICU |
The goal of this session is to highlight updates in recommendations for steroid use in critical illness, including sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and pneumonia. |
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3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. |
Periprocedure Management |
The goal of this session is to highlight medication management strategies in the periprocedural space, including pain, sedation, anticoagulation, and antimicrobial prophylaxis. |
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4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Course Adjournment |
Karen Berger, Pharm.D. and Melissa Santibañez, Pharm.D. |
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TBD |
Dinner Reception |
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We have reserved a limited conference room block at our selected hotel for the upcoming Inaugural NSU Critical Care Symposium. If you wish to stay at the conference hotel, please note that reservations must be made directly with the hotel. Mention the "NSU Critical Care Symposium room block" when booking to receive the discounted rate.*
Hotel Details
Sheraton Suites FTL Plantation
311 N University Drive, Plantation, FL 33324
954-424-3300
NSU Group Rate
$179 per night (available for stays from 3/21/25 to 3/22/25)
Parking
On-Site Parking
Daily: $10.00
*Please be advised that this arrangement is for personal convenience and is not included in the conference fee. All attendees, except for out-of-state speakers, will be responsible for their own accommodations. Reserve early to secure your spot, as space is limited!
Accreditation
Nova Southeastern University Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This program has been approved for up to ACPE 6.5 contact hours (0.65 Continuing Education Units, or CEUs).
NSU College of Pharmacy is also a CE Broker provider for the Florida Board of Pharmacy. The program has been approved for 6.5 hours of general continuing education (CE) credit.
The Provider, Nova Southeastern University Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy,
will report all earned CE credits for this program to both CPE Monitor (ACPE/NABP)
and CE Broker for those pharmacists who provide their correct pharmacist credentials
on the forms provided.
Policy of Non-Discrimination
Nova Southeastern University admits students of any race, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying disability, religion or creed, or national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school and does not discriminate in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.