Resources

2020  |  Guidelines & Standards

The ECMO Consultation Guidelines is a tool that outlines for critical care providers various interventions and/or therapies that should be considered for respiratory rescue in critically ill patients. The goal is to ensure that patients most likely to benefit from ECMO are considered for this intervention in a timely manner and that consultation with a center providing ECMO is enabled.

2020  |  Guidelines & Standards

Document provides the process for access and release of ventilators from the provincial stockpile during pandemic response.

2020  |  Guidelines & Standards

The recommended pathway for EMU and epilepsy surgery referrals endeavors to supplement current system activity and provides referring physicians a recommended centre of referral.

2019  |  Guidelines & Standards

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

2019  |  Guidelines & Standards

This document provides a template for conducting moderate surge mock drills and acts as a tool to rehearse surge response planning.​

2019  |  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.

2019  |  Guidelines & Standards

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

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 Guidelines for Basic Adult Neurological Observation were developed by the provincial Neurosurgery Education and Outreach Network (NEON) to document the processes associated with the basic assessment of a patient’s neurological status. The Guidelines provide direction for local development of bedside neurological observation protocols to ensure consistency of neurological assessment within and across different organizations. For the individual patient, they provide a baseline from which changes in the patient’s neurological status may be identified, reported, and managed in a timely manner.

2018  |  Guidelines & Standards

2018  |  Guidelines & Standards

Practice Standards for Critical Care Nursing in Ontario

2018  |  Guidelines & Standards

These guidelines, developed by Critical Care Services Ontario (CCSO) in collaboration with physicians and hospital administrators, provide clear pathways that providers at hospitals without a neurosurgery program can follow to determine whether to request an urgent neurosurgery consultation or referral via CritiCall Ontario.