Volunteers have been a valued part of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s busy Emergency Department (ED) for many years. Almost 50 individuals volunteer in the ED on a regular basis, directing patients and providing comfort. However, in recent years these Volunteers ...

All eyes were on downtown Vancouver on the night of the 2011 Stanley Cup final. It had been 17 years since the Vancouver Canucks had made it to the finals and the city was looking for a victory. While fans ...

A first time mom wakes up to her seven month-old coughing in her crib. It is a barking cough that sounds painful and is accompanied by a mild fever. The mom picks up her baby and comforts her. The baby ...

A young woman lays unconscious on the roadside following a highway accident. A player clutches his chest and falls to the ice during an old-timers hockey game. A father suffers a cardiac arrest as he gets ready for work. “Cardiovascular disease ...

An innovative approach to patient care at Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS) is helping to move ambulatory patients more quickly through the emergency department (ED), while still delivering high quality patient care. The patient navigator, a registered nurse in the ED ...

A unique and richly detailed long-term study of survivors of severe critical illness requiring intensive care found that even those who were previously healthy, young and working did not regain the physical or psychological health they had before their illness. This ...

Many emergency service and health-care workers who serve the public are routinely exposed to the trauma of their patients and clients. These workers include police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services staff, hospital emergency department staff, funeral home workers, 911 operators ...

As a transport medicine organization, Ornge, like most first response officials and crews, knows firsthand that the consequences of a traumatic injury can be devastating. Particularly during the summer months, Ornge medical crews respond to accident scenes on a regular ...

Paramedics from the Greater Toronto Area have been overwhelmingly responsive to the training they have received from midwives in dealing with out-of-hospital birth emergencies. To date, more than 150 paramedics have received the emergency obstetrical skills training from four registered ...

It’s not often a patient returns to an emergency department just for a tour. But, on a sunny afternoon this past June, Elizabeth Carmichael was happy to do just that. The 76-year-old Scarborough resident was invited back to The Scarborough Hospital’s ...