Emergency Medicine

New PICU built around family-centred care
Growing together: New PICU built around
family-centred care

Michelle Bisaillon was critically ill at age 14 with complications from acute myeloid leukemia. She spent four weeks in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton, and, at times, her parents weren’t sure if she ...

Posted: August 10, 2012|Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics|0 comments

Real time locating system leads to improvements in emergency department
Real time locating system leads to improvements in
emergency department

As Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering (RVAP) prepared to open its new 20,000 square-foot emergency department (ED) in 2009, we were faced with a new dilemma: How would we track the flow of patients in multiple areas of the ED ...


Staff practice their response to emergencies and disasters
Staff practice their response to emergencies
and disasters

We all know that disaster can strike at any time. A raging fire in a nearby neighbourhood, a plane crash at an airport, or the threat of wide spread illness within the community can send a hospital into an emergency ...


Peel Regional Paramedic Services to participate in two new prehospital research trials
Peel Regional Paramedic Services to participate in two
new prehospital research trials

Peel Regional Paramedic Services (PRPS), a recognized leader in prehospital research, will started two new randomized controlled trials in July 2012: the ROC ALPS study (Amidoarone, Lidocaine or Neither for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Due to Ventricular Fibrillation or Ventricular Tachycardia) ...

Posted: August 8, 2012|Emergency Medicine, Research|0 comments

Practice makes perfect: The use of simulation in Trauma Outreach Program
Practice makes perfect: The use of simulation in Trauma
Outreach Program

The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), provides outstanding family-centered patient care, pioneers breakthrough research, and trains future health care professionals. As a tertiary level pediatric hospital we are fully cognizant that children and youth can be prone to injuries. Thankfully, ...


Call volumes on the rise at CritiCall Ontario
Call volumes on the rise at CritiCall Ontario

More than 21,000 cases – that’s how many times CritiCall Ontario answered calls from Ontario physicians who needed assistance caring for a critically or emergently ill or injured patient this past year. In fact, for the past five years, call ...


Restoring trust in Ornge
Restoring trust in Ornge

In January of this year, when I was approached to become interim president and CEO of Ornge, what I knew of the organization was only what I had read in the newspapers in the preceding weeks as the controversy unfolded. ...


Volunteers help keep delirium at bay in the emergency department
Volunteers help keep delirium at bay in the
emergency department

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 ...


Planning for the worst: How hospitals prepared for the Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver
Planning for the worst: How hospitals prepared for the
Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver

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 ...


Ontarians give overall emergency care an A grade
Ontarians give overall emergency care an A grade

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 ...

Posted: August 1, 2011|Editor's Note, Emergency Medicine|0 comments

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