AAEM/RSA Introduction to Critical Care in EM (ICCEM)

Saturday, April 11, 2026

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PT

Location: Elliott Bay - Lobby Level

Course Director(s)

Matthew Carvey, MD (he/him/his)

Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine Fellow
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio

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

Emergency Medicine Physician
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Kensington, Maryland

Disclosure information not submitted.

Course Faculty(s)

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

Resident Physician
Yale New Haven Hospital
Milford, Connecticut

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

Emergency Medicine Physician
AdventHealth
Winter Garden, Florida

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Disclosure(s):

Matthew Carvey, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

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

Ryan Kelly, MD, MSc: No financial relationships to disclose

The ICCEM course delves into the fundamentals of critical care medicine to prepare medical students and interns for the rigors of the specialty as it pertains to emergency medicine. Subjects covered will include arterial blood gas/CBC/BMP interpretation, mechanical ventilation, drug therapy (pertaining to analgesics, sedatives and paralytics), intra-aortic balloon pump therapy, REBOA and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, pediatric and neonatal critical care, hemodynamic and intracranial pressure monitoring, cardiac pacing and implantable cardiac devices, fluid therapy and massive transfusion and lastly POCUS ultrasonography. A certification of completion will be offered if all requirements are met.

Learning Objectives:

After this session, the learner will be able to demonstrate the theoretical and practical applications of advanced cardiovascular devices in the emergency medicine and critical care settings.
After this session, the learner will be able to perform video-assisted and direct laryngoscopy, cricothyroidotomy and fiberoptic laryngoscopy.
After this session, the learner will be able to define the traditional approach to rapid sequence intubation, and be comfortable with alternative methods to sedation, analgesia and paralysis.