Finding ways to help older adults recover from burn injuries
While significant advancements in burn care have occurred across North America over the past decade, there is still one patient...
MCH’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit is “nothing short of exceptional”
For parents whose children receive care in McMaster Children’s Hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), the experience usually stays in...
Refusing vaccination can lead to “death’s door” in the intensive care unit
The dire situation in Ontario’s intensive care units (ICUs) is all so preventable, say Hamilton Health Sciences’ (HHS) doctors. They’re...
Early COVID patient beats the odds, matches “dreamworld” experience to reality
To say Anoop Chugh went through a lot is an understatement. He was so ill with COVID-19 during the pandemic's first wave that he required a ventilator and life support.
How to turn a heart unit into an intensive care unit
Unconventional ICU spaces necessary to care for critically ill patients during third wave Long before the third wave of the...
“Angels in scrubs” provide COVID care with ECMO heart-lung bypass machine
Update: After a nearly 3-month stay at the Hamilton General Hospital, Mike VanNetten recovered enough from COVID to go home...