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Explore the comprehensive and diverse content to be presented at Congress. 100+ expert-led sessions covering the latest clinical research, emerging technologies, and best practices.

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  • Friday, March 20, 2026
  • 6:30 AM - 5:30 PM Central Time
    Critical Care Ultrasound: Adult
  • 6:30 AM - 5:30 PM Central Time
    Critical Care Ultrasound: Pediatric and Neonatal
  • 6:30 AM - 5:30 PM Central Time
    Airway and Mechanical Ventilation Management
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Central Time
    ELSO Extracorporeal Membranous Oxygenation (ECMO) Simulation Course
  • Saturday, March 21, 2026
  • 6:30 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    Critical Care Ultrasound: Advanced Echocardiography
  • 6:30 AM - 5:30 PM Central Time
    Critical Care Ultrasound: Adult
  • 6:30 AM - 5:30 PM Central Time
    Critical Care Ultrasound: Pediatric and Neonatal
  • 6:30 AM - 5:30 PM Central Time
    Airway and Mechanical Ventilation Management
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Central Time
    ELSO Extracorporeal Membranous Oxygenation (ECMO) Simulation Course
  • 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM Central Time
    SCCM Discovery Critical Care Innovation Incubator
  • 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    Deep Dive: Pulmonary Embolus Response Team (PERT) Service Line
  • 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM Central Time
    Leadership and Management Skills to Enhance Your Professional Role
  • 12:00 PM - 5:30 PM Central Time
    Critical Care Ultrasound: Advanced Echocardiography
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Central Time
    Deep Dive: An Introduction to AI in Critical Care Medicine
  • Sunday, March 22, 2026
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Central Time
    Max Harry Weil Honorary Lecture: Thought Leader: The Effective Management of Shock: Moving From Physiology to Personalized Medicine
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Central Time
    AI on the Menu: Optimizing Nutrition Goals for Critically Ill Patients
    GI and Nutrition
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Central Time
    ICU Triage. What We Know, and Everything We Don’t
    Administration
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Central Time
    Beyond ACLS: What Is There in the Kitchen Sink After the New 2025 ACLS Guideline?
    Resuscitation
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Central Time
    Hidden in Plain Site: Substance Abuse Among Healthcare Professionals
    Behavioral Health and Well-Being
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Central Time
    Year in Review: Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology
    Pharmacology
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Central Time
    Pro/Con: Should Cost Containment Impact Bedside Decision-Making?
    Ethics End of Life
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Central Time
    Year in Review: Pediatrics
    Pediatrics
  • 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Central Time
    Peer Reviewer Academy
    Administration
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM Central Time
    Acute Kidney Dysfunction in Cirrhosis: Diagnosis, Drugs, and Dialysis
    Pharmacology
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM Central Time
    Uses and Misuses of Generative AI in Research
    Research
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM Central Time
    Year in Review: Surgery Section
    Professional Development and Education
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM Central Time
    Learning From Adverse Events: Applying Human Factors Engineering to Healthcare Simulation Training
    Quality and Patient Safety
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM Central Time
    The Future of Sepsis and ARDS Therapy: Breakthroughs to Watch in 2026
    Sepsis
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM Central Time
    Words Matter
    Professional Development and Education
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    Late-Breaking Studies Affecting Patient Outcomes I
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    How to Become an ACCM Fellow
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    Smart Strategies for Addressing the Workforce Crisis in Critical Care
    Administration
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    Demystifying Neuroprognostication After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
    Pediatrics
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    Scoring a Win Against Refractory Shock: The Power Play of Drug Therapy
    Sepsis
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    Year in Review: Nursing
    Professional Development and Education
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    Entering the Gray Zone: Pushing the Boundaries of ECMO Candidacy
    Pulmonary
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    Alcohol With Critical Illness: Don't Mix
    Immunology
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Central Time
    Definition of an Intensivist in 2026
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Central Time
    Celebrating the Impact of SCCM Guidelines on Critical Illness
    Epidemiology Outcomes
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Central Time
    Flipped Session: Controversies in Pulmonary Embolism
    Pulmonary
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Central Time
    Virtual Versus In-Person Learning for Critical Care Education
    Professional Development and Education
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Central Time
    The Invisible Injury: Targeting Microvascular Dysfunction in Acute Brain Injury
    Neuroscience
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Central Time
    Year in Review: Research Section
    Research
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Central Time
    Translating Immunity in the PICU: Cutting-Edge Discoveries in Pediatric Viral Respiratory Infections
    Pulmonary
  • Monday, March 23, 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Central Time
    William Shoemaker Honorary Lecture: Thought Leader: Making Sepsis the Next Success Story in Global Health
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Central Time
    When Sedation Doesn't Work
    Pharmacology
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Central Time
    Augmented Reality, Simulation-Based Design, and Other Cutting-Edge Educational Tools in Critical Care
    Professional Development and Education
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Central Time
    ABCs of Vasoplegia
    Cardiovascular
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Central Time
    Year in Review: Respiratory Care
    Pulmonary
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Central Time
    What's New and Different in the Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2026
    Sepsis
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Central Time
    Proven or Premature? The Neurocritical Care Studies Face-Off
    Neuroscience
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Central Time
    Precision, Innovation, and Relentless Improvement: Rethinking Standardization in the PICU
    Research
  • 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM Central Time
    Stand and Deliver
    Patient and Family Support
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    Atrial Fibrillation at the Cutting Edge
    Cardiovascular
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    2026 Updates to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock in Children
    Sepsis
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    Every Breath You Take: PEEP and Recruitment Maneuvers in ARDS
    Pulmonary
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    Stroke Showdown: Rapid-Fire Strategies for Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Cerebral Emergencies
    Neuroscience
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    Pro/Con: Are Mandatory Vaccinations for Critical Care Workers Effective?
    Immunology
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    Critical Care Under Siege: Safeguarding ICU Teams From Workplace Violence
    Behavioral Health and Well-Being
  • 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Central Time
    Advanced Practice Providers Networking Session
  • 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Central Time
    Ake Grenvik Honorary Lecture: Thought Leader: Medicine, Media, and My Journey: The Impact of "The Pitt" Medical Drama Series
  • 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Central Time
    Lifetime Achievement Award: Hindsights Bring Insights
  • 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Central Time
    Living in the Gray: Supporting Patients, Families, and Clinicians in the Face of Serious Critical Illness and Death
  • 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Central Time
    Advancing Sepsis Diagnostics: Implementing Novel Biomarkers and Technologies in the ED and ICU
    Immunology
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Central Time
    ACCM Convocation and SCCM Awards Presentation
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    Childhood Vaccine Side Effect: Adulthood
    Epidemiology Outcomes
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    Too Few Nurses . . . Too Many Deaths?
    Epidemiology Outcomes
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    Pro/Con: Improved Outcomes Using Guidelines or Personalized Care
    Epidemiology Outcomes
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    Beyond the Hype: Implementing Technologies, AI, and ML in Critical Care
    Administration
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    Discovery: When Research Goes Wrong
    Research
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    Year in Review: Telecritical Care
    Professional Development and Education
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time
    Pediatric ECMO: A Story That Begins and Ends at the Bedside
    Pediatrics
  • Tuesday, March 24, 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Central Time
    A.S. Laerdal Memorial Lecture:
  • 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Central Time
    Multidrug-Resistant Infections: Is the Solution Drugs or Sewage?
    Infection
  • 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Central Time
    Right Heart, Right Moves: Optimizing Failed Lungs and a Struggling RV
    Pulmonary
  • 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Central Time
    Open Sesame: The Magic of POCUS and Its Role in Early and Late Sepsis Management
    Sepsis
  • 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Central Time
    Advances in Precision Medicine in Pediatric Critical Care
    Pediatrics
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Central Time
    Late-Breaking Studies Affecting Patient Outcomes II
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Central Time
    Biomarkers: Late-Breaking Technology That Can Change How We Manage Critically Ill Trauma Patients
    Trauma
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Central Time
    Derm-emergencies: Updates to Skin and Soft Tissue Emergencies
    Pharmacology
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Central Time
    Trauma-Informed PICU Care: How to Deliver Personalized and Compassionate Care in the PICU
    Patient and Family Support
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Central Time
    Year in Review: Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Care
    Resuscitation
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Central Time
    A Master of Critical Care Medicine Journey Presented by the American College of Critical Care Medicine
  • 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Central Time
    SCCM Member Business Meeting
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    Echoing Precision: POCUS in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Management
    Neuroscience
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    Decoding Nephrotoxicity in the ICU: Real Threats, False Flags, and Safe Practices
    Renal
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    Refractory Pediatric Pain Management
    Pharmacology
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    Applied Skills for Quality Projects in Critical Care
    Quality and Patient Safety
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    Ethical Dilemmas in the Unrepresented Patient
    Ethics End of Life
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    Obstetric Critical Care in the Post-Dobbs Era
    Obstetrics
  • 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Central Time
    Educational Leadership Networking Session
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
    SCCM/ACCM Business Meeting
  • 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Central Time
    Peter Safar Honorary Lecture: Thought Leader: Quality Care Despite Disparities: Lessons From the Alaska Trauma System
  • 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Central Time
    ACCM Distinguished Investigator, Discovery Grant Recipient, and SCCM-Weil Research Grant Recipient
  • 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Central Time
    Refractory Shock and Body Temperature Definitions/Alterations: Joint ESICM/SCCM Session
  • 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Central Time
    Pro/Con: Thrombectomy Versus Thrombolytics for Pulmonary Embolism
    Cardiovascular
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Central Time
    Year in Review: Internal Medicine
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Central Time
    Immunology for the Non-Immunologist
    Immunology
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Central Time
    Clot if You Don't, Bleed if You Do: Pediatric Venous Thromboembolism Risk and Prevention
    Pediatrics
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Central Time
    Clots Unraveled: Strategies to Optimize Pulmonary Embolism Management
    Pulmonary
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Central Time
    Rebuilding Minds: Nurturing Brain Health After ICU Care
    Neuroscience
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Central Time
    Turn up the Volume! When Atypical Tidal Volumes Should Be Considered
    Pediatrics
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Central Time
    Trauma Drama: Essentials for Success at the Bedside for the Nonsurgeon
    Procedures
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Central Time
    Biomarkers in ARDS: Insights Aligned With the SCCM Mapping Review
    Pulmonary
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Central Time
    Implementation Science in Critical Care
    Quality and Patient Safety
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Central Time
    Blood Matters: Everything Needed to Understand Transfusion and Anemia Management in Your ICU
    Hematology
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Central Time
    Minute Mindfulness: Simple Strategies to Combat Burnout
    Behavioral Health and Well-Being