Like many patients in the Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, the elderly patient was unable to speak. She was unable to tell her caregivers anything about herself, her likes and dislikes, what she ...

After years of discussion on ways to improve the care provided to patients living with a tracheostomy, St. Joseph’s Health Centre Toronto (St. Joe’s) created a new Tracheostomy Team on November 23, 2010. The core group in this new interprofessional tracheostomy ...

Peel Regional Paramedics have enrolled the first case in a North American study intended to determine the impact of an alternate method of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) compared to standard CPR. “Previous research has shown that minimizing interruptions in chest compressions may ...

The morning of Friday, July 8, 2011 started off like any other morning for Marlo Chartland, until later that evening when she was struck with extreme abdominal pain. The pain was so unbearable that she was taken to Southlake Regional ...

Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010 is a day that 59-year-old Bowmanville resident Gary McCormack won’t soon forget. While watching television that evening with his wife Joan, the father and grandfather suddenly felt a pain in his jaw that soon went to ...

There are few things as miraculous as a newborn’s first gulp of oxygen, yet nothing more frightening for parents when that moment doesn’t come as quickly as it should. It was just one minute into a brand new day, December 10, ...