Instructions

Date & Location
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 12:00 PM - Thursday, December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM

Target Audience
Specialties - Physicians
Professions - Physician, Physician Assistant

Overview

Why do patients with methemoglobinemia have an oxygen saturation fixed at 85%?

Here’s a case for you: an older patient with lung cancer undergoes an awake intubation with benzocaine. They then experience hypoxemia which stays fixed at 85% despite receiving 100% FiO2 oxygen. The care team does an ABG, which yields chocolate-colored blood with a PO2 of 284. Diagnosis?


Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:

  1. Review the mechanism why which pulse oximetry works.
  2. Apply the mechanism by which pulse oximetry works to methemoglobinemia.
  3. Generate other stations where pulse oximetry may be unreliable.

Registration

There is a $10.00 Credit Claim fee to obtain CE credit for this activity. This Credit Claim fee will help to cover the costs of operational services, electronic reporting (if applicable), and real time customer service support. 

  • Please select the "Register," tab to register for the activity and access content.
  • In order to receive continuing education credit, learners must listen to the 30 minute podcast, pass the post-test (2 questions, 100% required score, unlimited attempts), and complete an evaluation form. 

 

The planning committee members report having no relevant financial relationships to disclose:

Hannah Abrams 
Tony Breu
Avi Cooper

No commercial or in-kind support was provided for this activity.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Curious Clinicians and VCU Health Continuing Education. VCU Health Continuing Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

VCU Health Continuing Education designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.50 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

It is the responsibility of the participant to provide the correct information [ABIM ID Number and DOB (in MMDD format)] in order to receive MOC credit for participating in a CE activity. 

Disclaimers 
Minimum and maximum numbers for attendance at this event have been established, and we reserve the right to substitute speakers/topics, adjust credit hours, or cancel if necessary.

By attending this event you grant VCU Health Continuing Education the right at the event to record, film, photograph, or capture your likeness in any media and to distribute, broadcast, use, or otherwise disseminate, in perpetuity, such media without any further approval from or any payment to you.  

 

Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.50 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.50 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.50 hours)