SCCM • CRITICAL CARE CONGRESS 2026
SCCM Critical Care Congress 2026
Complete Digital Congress
📅 March 22–24, 2026
🎥 400+ Videos & Subtitles
👨⚕️ Adult + Pediatric Critical Care
About the Congress
The SCCM Critical Care Congress 2026 – Complete Digital Congress is a comprehensive collection of the latest education, clinical updates, scientific research, and emerging developments across adult and pediatric critical care medicine.
The Congress was held March 22–24, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois, with the digital congress released April 24, 2026.
It provides extensive coverage of intensive care medicine, pulmonary and respiratory care, sepsis, shock, mechanical ventilation, ECMO, CRRT, neurocritical care, resuscitation, pharmacology, pediatrics, cardiovascular critical care, AI, data science, quality improvement, and much more.
What’s Included
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400+ Videos
Extensive congress presentations.
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Subtitles
Video presentations with subtitles.
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Adult + Pediatric
Coverage across critical care populations.
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Organized by Topic
Easy navigation across major specialties.
Key Clinical & Scientific Areas
🦠 Sepsis and Septic Shock
📋 2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign Updates
👶 Pediatric Sepsis & Phoenix Criteria
🫁 ARDS & Acute Respiratory Failure
🫁 Mechanical Ventilation
🫁 Lung- & Diaphragm-Protective Ventilation
❤️ ECMO & ECPR
💧 CRRT & Renal Replacement Therapy
❤️ Cardiovascular Critical Care
📈 Shock & Hemodynamic Monitoring
🔎 POCUS
🧠 Neurocritical Care
🧠 Acute Brain Injury & TBI
⚡ Status Epilepticus
💊 Critical Care Pharmacology & Toxicology
🚑 Resuscitation & Cardiac Arrest
👶 Pediatric Critical Care
🤰 Obstetric Critical Care
🦠 Infectious Diseases
🩸 Hematology & Transfusion
🍽️ GI & ICU Nutrition
🤖 AI & Machine Learning
📡 Telecritical Care
📊 Research & Data Science
✅ Quality Improvement & Patient Safety
⚖️ Ethics & End-of-Life Care
👥 ICU Workforce & Administration
🌍 Global & Resource-Limited Critical Care
Complete Congress Content
Explore the complete program organized by clinical and professional category.
Administration
- Adult ICU Triage Guideline
- CC Physician Shortages
- Exploring the Financial ROI for Coaching
- Exploring the Pillars of Executive Coaching Versus Peer Coaching
- Identifying the Right Coach
- Implementing Decision Support: What Works, What Fails, and How to Get It Right
- Interoperability and Real-Time Data: Breaking Down Silos in Decision-Making
- Lack of Available ICU Beds and Resources to Meet Increasing Numbers of ICU Patients
- Making the EHR Smarter: Reducing Clicks, Improving Data Flow, and Enhancing Usability
- Moving Too Fast: Speeding Along the Workforce Pipeline
- The Challenges of a Complex Process
- The Impact of Federal Funding Reductions on Research
- The Rest Is Up to Me and You: Battling the Workforce Crisis
- Trends in Nurse and Advanced Practice Provider Workforce in the ICU
- Where Do We Go From Here?
- Your Way or Nothing at All: Brain Drain and the Global Workforce Migration
Behavioral Health and Well Being
- Building a Violence-Free ICU
- CAGED: How Much Is Too Much?
- China’s Remarkable Doubling of Its ICU Workforce and Bed Capacity Within a Decade
- Code Calm: Recognizing and De-escalating Danger on the Front Line
- Emerging Role of Tele-ICU in Transforming Critical Care Delivery in India
- From Behind the Scenes to Center Stage: Promoting the Role of Intensivists in Brazil
- Innovate to Mitigate: Emerging Strategies to Combat Workplace Violence
- Is It Fentanyl or Saline?
- Legalization of Marijuana
- The Impact of the Resident Walkout on Critical Care in Korea
Cardiovascular
- Addressing Comorbidities in Atrial Fibrillation
- Angiotensin 2
- Avoiding Stroke and Thromboembolism in Atrial Fibrillation
- Con: Mechanical Circulatory Support Is Overused
- Con: Thrombolytics Remain the Standard of Care for Massive PE
- Echoing the Right Signals: Advanced Diagnostics in Right Heart Failure
- Hydroxycobalamin: The Newest B
- Methylene Blue: The Better B
- Predicting the Right Outcomes: Prognostication in Right Heart Failure
- Pro: Mechanical Circulatory Support Is Underused
- Pro: We Should Expand Our Use of Thrombectomy for PE
- Pulse Contour Analysis Monitors: Applications and Limitations of Diagnosis and Management of Shock
- Rate Versus Rhythm Control
- The Role of POCUS as an Alternative to Pulmonary Artery Catheterization in the Diagnosis and Management of Shock
Crisis Management
- Disasters, Mass Casualty Incidents, and Their Effects on the Healthcare Workforce
- Hammering in the Nails: Designing and Implementing a Disaster Plan for Your ICU
- The Therapeutic Effect of Canine Caregivers on the Medical Staff in a Traumatized Healthcare Setting
Endocrine
- Acute Adrenal Insufficiency and Adrenal Crisis
- Con: Obesity Adversely Impacts Critical Illness Outcomes
- DKA/HHS
- Hyponatremia/Hypernatremia
- Leveraging RAAS in Shock
- Postoperative Hypermetabolic Syndromes
- Pro: Obesity Is Protective
- Serotonin Syndrome
- Pituitary/Vasopressin in Shock
- Thyroid Storm/Myxedema
- Adrenal Gland/Catecholamines
Epidemiology Outcomes
- Vaccine hesitancy/misinformation high-risk
- ICU Liberation/PADIS
- Guidelines improve outcomes
- Better nutrition collaboration/guidelines
- Centralized/referral vs local/community ICUs
- General vs specialty ICUs
- Precision medicine instead guidelines
- Surviving sepsis >20 years
- Childhood vaccinations prevent ICU admissions
- Vaccine-preventable diseases
- Where did nurses go
- Where do we go
- Fewer nurses worse outcomes
Ethics & End-of-Life Care
- Early partnership organ procurement
- Clinical team not involved cost containment
- Donor resuscitation
- Expanding organ donation criteria
- Age in EOL Ethicus-2
- NRP
- Palliative care across continents
- Costs/resources impact decisions
- Learner prep for patient loss
- Emotional impact death
- Variations EOL
GI and Nutrition
- Feeding the Future: AI personalize nutrition
- Morbid Obesity ICU physiology/interventions
- One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Personalizing Nutrition Goals in ICU
- Tech Bites AI-powered nutrition barriers
- Nutritional Impact of Obesity
Hematology
- Acid-Base for the Strong of Heart?
- AI Meets Hemoglobin
- Anemia Unmasked
- Tranexamic Acid in Obstetrics
- Hemoadsorption
- PCC obstetric hemorrhage
- Synthetic Blood and Beyond
- Bedside Engineering for Blood Purification
- Transfusion Truths
- DOACs high-risk obstetric
- Whole Blood Revival
Immunology
- Alcohol influences immune response ARDS
- Alcohol use disorder/gut barrier
- Alcohol use disorder/immune response sepsis
- CAR-T and BIT
- Con vaccinations not mandatory
- Donor-derived infections
- Immunology simplified
- Novel sepsis diagnostics
- Pro vaccinations mandatory
- Common immunologic emergencies
- Sepsis with immunotherapy
- Emerging sepsis biomarkers
Infection
- ART ICU
- Antibiotics MDR/XDR
- Opportunistic infections
- Bacteriophages
- IRIS
Integument
- Microvascular catastrophes
- SJS/TEN
- Necrotizing soft tissue infections
Neuroscience
- Beyond Survival post-ICU neuropsychiatric
- Clot Busters 2.0
- Con Battle of Brain Bleeds/Code ICH
- Con routine seizure prophylaxis
- Con ZODIAC
- Microvascular dysfunction acute brain injury
- EEG in SAH
- Pharmacologic risk/neurobiology brain dysfunction
- Oxygen/CO2/pulse pressure cerebral microcirculation ECMO
- Cerebral edema
- Sepsis/ARDS cerebral perfusion
- Neurosciences II
- Neurosciences I
- NeuroShield
- Invasive hemodynamic SAH
- POCUS SAH
- Pro TBI shield
- Pro Code ICH
- Pro ZODIAC
- Status epilepticus precision pharmacotherapy
- Osmotherapy
- Post-ICU brain dysfunction
Obstetrics
- Guardians of Life
- Medication Conundrum
- Obstetric Hemorrhage post-Roe
- Obstetric Sepsis post-Roe
- Changing landscape of obstetric emergencies post-Roe
Patient and Family Support
- PANDEM/ICU Liberation trauma-informed PICU
- Foundations trauma-informed care
- More Than We Expected memoir
- Our Why
- Pro families present cardiac arrest
- PTSD/anxiety/depression parents
- Pediatric medical traumatic stress/PICS
- Trauma-informed challenging scenarios
Pediatrics
- ACTION HF
- Advanced Extracorporeal Therapies
- Biomarkers brain/kidney/PARDS/sepsis
- Prognostic uncertainty after pediatric arrest
- Biomarkers predicting outcomes
- Bleeding risk
- Translational science/bioengineering ECMO
- Clotting risk
- Clinical trials thrombosis/thromboprophylaxis
- Adverse events pediatric ECMO
- Ethical family discharge/adult transition
- Neuroimaging/neuromonitoring
- Multimodality prognostic models
- Severe viral infection modeling
- SES/pain
- Technology pediatric ECMO
- Macrophage inflammation viral respiratory
- National pediatric sepsis estimates
- Neuroprognostication worldwide
- Nonpharmacologic refractory pain
- PK/PD/PGx overdoses/extracorporeal
- Pharmacologic refractory pain beyond opioids
- PPETS
- Brain death evaluation
- Setting the Stage
- qEEG
- ECMO family
- Medical complexity
- RSV pathogenesis
- Updates basic/clinical/data/education-QI
- Ventilating children on ECMO
- Severe asthma
- Severe BPD
- Nasal inflammatory response bronchiolitis
- WE-ROCK renal outcomes
Pharmacology
- Toxicology review
- Inappropriate meds older adult
- Peripheral IV
- Dialysis cirrhosis
- Delabeling allergies/warnings
- OCEAN-ICU sedation
- Acute kidney dysfunction in cirrhosis
- SJS/TEN therapy
- PAD pain/agitation/delirium
- Frostbite
- GLP1 inhibitor complications
- QTc meds
- Ketamine
- Study statistics/drug interaction identification
- Linezolid vs clindamycin nec fasc
- Magic mushrooms
- Deprescribing geriatric
- Neuroactive meds/delirium
- Alternative routes
- THC status epilepticus
- Pediatric pharmacotherapy
- IV push meds
- Kidney dysfunction cirrhosis
Procedures
- Bedside salvage
- Ageism surgical candidacy
- DNR OR
- Older adults surgery
- Perioperative life support
- Primary/secondary ICU surveys
- Dramatic wound care trauma
- Geriatric post-surgical care
Professional Development and Education
- Opening/Presidential Address
- Master of Critical Care Medicine journey
- APP utilization/productivity
- Anti-DEI legislation
- Con Rebuttal
- Care conference
- Con intensivist criteria
- Emergency general surgery
- Virtual nursing
- 3D critical care education
- Pharmacist training
- APP training
- Health at Fingertips
- Humanizing ICU nursing
- 4Ms inpatient
- Inclusion leadership
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- Mapping Values
- Microlearning
- Generative AI research writing
- 4Ms bedside nurse
- Pro Rebuttal
- Pro intensivist criteria
- Virtual/mixed/augmented education
- Recovery One Megabyte
- Telecritical care trends 2026
- Ethical responsible AI
- Shared billing Medicare/Medicaid
- Family/delirium ICU nursing
- Surgical critical care
- 10 Steps sepsis low-resource
- Current state generative AI research
- Immigration policies access
- Pitfalls genAI manuscripts
- Science microlearning
- Telepharmacy
- Trauma
- Simulation beyond mock code
- What not to say/TO say
- Year in review internal medicine
Pulmonary
- Ketofol
- ARDS clinical research phenotypes
- ARDS precision medicine
- Lung/diaphragm protective ventilation
- Bedside subphenotypes
- Prolonged ventilation ECMO contraindication
- Ceragenin-coated ETT VAP
- Intubation outcomes
- ECMO pregnancy/oncologic
- POC technologies
- Driving pressure
- PEEP/recruitment
- Future innovations
- Human factors intubation
- ECMO TBI
- Lung-protective ARDS
- Clot intervention
- Nonpharm agitation/delirium
- Patient/ventilator
- PERT
- PEEP guidelines
- RV dysfunction POCUS
- Receptors sedative response
- Respiratory/hemodynamic optimization
- Pulmonary hypertension therapy barriers
- Safe ventilation ECMO
- PEEP/ZEEP RV dysfunction
- Precision therapy ARDS/sepsis
- BARDA subtyping
- NM blocker guidelines
- Ventilator management
- Lung visualization
- Thrombolytics PE
- Respiratory care review
Quality and Patient Safety
- PDSA
- Simulation QI
- Data/metrics
- Equitable ICU liberation
- EOL guidelines infants/children
- Older adults guidelines
- Funding research
- Global equitable ICU liberation resource-limited
- Human factors
- QI intro
- Adverse events simulation
- Resource-limited ICU strategies
- Implementing guidelines/best evidence
- Research horizons
- New monitoring
- Simulation process testing
- SCCM adult EOL guidelines
- AI buy-in
- Implementation science
- Resource inequities
- Research future
- Vaccine-preventable diseases
- Whole-house monitoring
Renal
- ACE Symposium cirrhosis ICU HRS/AKI adult/peds liver
- Dialysis performance
- Evolution CRRT
- Nephrotoxicity diagnostic criteria
- Nephrotoxin stewardship
- Linoleic acid pediatric sepsis/AKI
- Pseudonephrotoxicity
- Smart CRRT
Research
- ACCM Distinguished Investigator kidney diseases
- AI active learning peds
- Continuous patient-centered learning
- Centralization vs individualization
- Peds clinical trial design
- Multi-omic PARDS endotypes
- Distance learners
- ESICM/SCCM joint consensus
- Translational gap
- Geriatric syndromes trials
- Enroll end users
- In person and online
- Industry dirty word/devil details
- Industry not devil
- Guidelines older adults
- Value in-person learning
- Biases
- SOFA-2
- Critical care pharmacists
- Polymyxin B hemoadsorption Bayesian RCT
- Pediatric QI
- Simulation/education
- Basic/translational
- Clinical/epidemiologic
- SCCM-Weil metabolic crosstalk
- Statistical pitfalls
Resuscitation
- Laerdal Memorial Lecture
- Novel hemostatics
- POCUS ACLS
- Prehospital critical care
- ECPR
- Norepi vs epi after ROSC
- Adjunct ACLS meds
- Prehospital whole blood
- Prolonged ED critical care
- EM literature
- TEE arrest
- Damage control resuscitation
Sepsis
- POCUS fluid overload
- SSC LMIC
- Postoperative fever vs sepsis
- HOB ICU metrics
- Diagnostic stewardship
- Bacteremia control
- POCUS resuscitative protocol
- 2026 pediatric SSC across resource levels
- Cytokine modulation
- SSC methods
- New/Revised SSC Recommendations
- Postop sepsis safety/economic
- Procalcitonin/NEWS2
- Antibiotic discontinuation
- Immunomodulators
- DPP3
- Shoemaker lecture
- CAR-T toxicities
- TKIs ARDS
- Vasoactives
- Refractory septic shock
- New recognition/management infection/hemodynamics/resuscitation
- New ventilation/metabolic/adjunctive/immunologic/long-term outcomes
Shock – Non-Sepsis
- Multidisciplinary mixed shock
- Extremes age
- Meds/receptor alterations
- Medical vs mechanical support
- Mixed shock risk stratification
- Extremes weight
Trauma
- TBI blood biomarkers
- Kidney biomarkers
- Metabolic markers/nutrition trauma
Worldwide Data
- Severe dengue
- Phoenix criteria LMIC
- Virtual peds access
- Malaria
- Simulation RLS
- Sepsis Phoenix LMIC
- TB/drug resistance
- Socioeconomic position/mortality systematic review
- Phoenix criteria classification
- Alaska Trauma System/Peter Safar lecture
- Geospatial/data/telemedicine
Major Learning Areas
Sepsis / Septic Shock / SSC
Recognition, diagnosis, POCUS resuscitation, biomarkers, antimicrobials, refractory shock, vasoactive therapy, immunomodulation, and the 2026 Pediatric SSC.
ARDS / Respiratory Failure / Mechanical Ventilation
Precision medicine, subphenotypes, lung- and diaphragm-protective ventilation, driving pressure, PEEP, recruitment, and advanced management.
ECMO / ECPR / Extracorporeal
Adult and pediatric ECMO, ECPR, extracorporeal therapies, ventilation during ECMO, pediatric ECMO, CRRT, and evolving technology.
Neurocritical Care
Acute brain injury, cerebral edema, TBI, stroke, ICH, SAH, EEG, neuromonitoring, neuroprognostication, status epilepticus, and post-ICU neuropsychiatric morbidity.
AI / Data Science
Generative AI, machine learning, AI clinical decision support, AI nutrition, predictive systems, telecritical care, responsible AI, and EHR optimization.
Pediatric Critical Care
Sepsis, ARDS, ECMO, cardiac arrest, AKI, biomarkers, thrombosis, neuroprognostication, RSV, asthma, ventilation, pharmacotherapy, data science, and QI.
Who Should Take This Congress?
Intensivists
Critical Care Physicians
Pulmonary & Critical Care Specialists
Pediatric Intensivists
Emergency Medicine Physicians
Anesthesiologists
Surgeons / Surgical Critical Care Physicians
Neurologists / Neurointensivists
Nephrologists
Clinical Pharmacists
Critical Care Nurses
Respiratory Therapists
Advanced Practice Providers
Other Multidisciplinary ICU Team Members
Delivery & Access
Complete Digital Congress
Video Presentations
VTT Subtitles
Organized by Topic
Sepsis, Pulmonary, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Neuroscience, Renal, Resuscitation, Cardiovascular, Research and more.
Adult + Pediatric Critical Care
Why Choose the SCCM Critical Care Congress 2026?
An exceptionally broad review of modern intensive care, bringing together hundreds of focused presentations across:
Sepsis • ARDS • ECMO • Mechanical Ventilation • Shock • Neurocritical Care • Resuscitation • Renal Replacement • Pharmacology • Pediatric Critical Care • AI
Its multidisciplinary structure makes it useful for exploring topics outside your primary specialty while maintaining a strong focus on the critically ill patient.
SCCM Critical Care Congress 2026
Complete Digital Congress • Critical Care Education • Adult & Pediatric Medicine
Complete Digital Congress • Critical Care Education • Adult & Pediatric Medicine
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