Resources

2024  |  Guidelines & Standards

These Guidelines are meant to facilitate consultations and/or transfers to a Burn Centre and should be applied using clinical judgement. Final decision to transfer remains at the discretion of the referring and receiving physicians.

2024  |  Guidelines & Standards

The Burn Management Checklists support clinicians at referring hospitals in managing patients with burn injuries closer to home. These checklists are meant to aid in clinical decision-making and are not a replacement for a consultation with a burn surgeon/centre facilitated by CritiCall Ontario.

1. Checklist: Outpatient Burn Management
2. Checklist: Isolated Inhalation Injury Management
3. Checklist: Electrical Injury Management
4. Checklist: Burn Resuscitation Management

2023  |  Guidelines & Standards

​This document provides an overview of the roles and responsibilities for the provincial ventilator stockpile as well as procedures for requesting, releasing, and returning stockpile ventilators and HFNC.

2023  |  Guidelines & Standards

Paediatric Levels of Care Guidance document, approved by Paediatric Critical Care Advisory committee of CCSO (October 2023), describes the criteria and capabilities of Level 2 and Level 3 PICUs in Ontario at the unit level. The purpose of this document is to serve as a guidance for both level 2 and level 3 PICUs currently operating, as well as those in the planning phase of developing new PICUs.

2023  |  Guidelines & Standards

Algorithm that describes step-by-step the process for declaring a moderate surge. ​

2022  |  Guidelines & Standards

The standards have been developed to identify optimal neonatal nursing knowledge, skills, and competencies with the intent to establish a common standard for neonatal nursing practice within the province of Ontario.

2022  |  Guidelines & Standards

Ontario Trauma Centres: Minimum Standards define expectations for adult and paediatric level I, level II, and level III trauma centres regarding their system role, capacity, and capabilities.

2021  |  Guidelines & Standards

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Levels of Care Guidance Document, developed by CCSO’s NICU Levels of Care Task Force, outlines the expected service level of care to be provided in all Level 2 and Level 3 NICUs across Ontario.
 
For more information about Perinatal and Birthing Levels of Care (Newborn Level 1, and Perinatal and Birthing Levels 1 through 3), please refer to PCMCH’s Perinatal, Birthing and Newborn Levels of Care Guidance Document.

2019  |  Guidelines & Standards

These Guidelines are meant to facilitate consultations and/or transfers of patients from referring hospitals to Lead Trauma Hospitals. They are created to encourage referring physicians to use CritiCall Ontario for both consultations and transfers. The document provides examples of the anatomical criteria and physiological criteria when assessing a patient’s need for transfer to a Lead Trauma Hospital.​

2018  |  Guidelines & Standards

The e-learning module is a product of the Neurosurgery Education and Outreach Network (NEON). It is intended to ensure consistency within and across organizations by providing guidance on performing bedside neurological assessments.

2018  |  Guidelines & Standards

2018  |  Guidelines & Standards

The 2018 release of the Practice Standards for Critical Care Nursing in Ontario replaces the second edition in 2012. It reflects the Excellent Care for All Act (ECFAA) legislation, ensuring critical care nursing practice includes a focus on inter-professional and multidisciplinary practice, and patient and family-centred care. This edition provides further clarity on the supporting requirements of a health care facility and critical care unit which facilitate the achievement of Critical Care Nursing Practice Standards by each nurse working within a critical care environment.