Emergency Room

• ‘Take a fever reducer and go home’: Flu surge strains overcrowded ERs at Montreal children’s hospitals

  Montreal children’s hospitals are overwhelmed by flu cases, with doctors urging parents to avoid ERs for mild symptoms and seek home care or clinics instead.

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  Dec 16
  
• ‘Patients get relief’: Researchers recommending nerve blockers to treat migraines

  The research recommends occipital nerve blocks should be offered in emergency rooms to treat acute migraine attacks. 

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  Dec 5
  
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• Delta councillor calls for public health emergency over hospital ER closures

  Over the weekend, Delta Hospital's emergency department shut down for the fourth time this year. It was closed for 12 hours overnight on Saturday due to a lack of doctors.

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  Oct 6
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• More British Columbians leaving ERs without being treated, report finds

  Looking at the data across Canada, about one in every 13 visits to emergency rooms resulted in patients leaving untreated.

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  Sep 18
• Alberta emergency room visit lengths continue to grow: Report

  Anyone who has been to an emergency room in Alberta in recent years knows to expect a wait if not critically ill or injured — now, a new report confirms wait times have increased.

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  Jun 3
• Quebec ERs report major overcrowding, some at more than 200% capacity

  Quebec government data says the average ER wait time across the province is five hours, and the average time patients spend on a stretcher is more than 16 hours.

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  Jan 3
• B.C. family outraged at man with Stage-4 cancer’s 14-hour ER wait, discharge

  Melissa McIntyre's husband Cory has Stage-4 colon cancer and continues to fight the disease despite being given just months to live in early 2023.

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  Dec 20, 2024
• Expansion of one of Ontario’s largest children’s hospitals promises reduced wait times

  A 50 per cent expansion of the emergency department at Southwestern Ontario’s largest children’s hospital is going a long way in combating the demand for service, staff say.

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  Dec 11, 2024
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• Data shows 1 in 7 ER visits could have been handled by primary care

  Between April 2023 and March 2024, 15 per cent of visits to Canadian emergency rooms could have been managed through a primary care provider new data shows.

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  Dec 5, 2024
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• Many Canadians end up in ER before being diagnosed with cancer: study

  More than a third of cancer patients in Ontario had visited an emergency department in the three months prior to their cancer diagnosis, according to a new study,

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  Nov 4, 2024