Ontario ICU Capacity

• Pushing Ontario’s ICUs to the brink: How some hospitals are preparing for the worst

  One Ottawa critical care physician compared planning and preparation for over-capacity ICUs amid surging COVID-19 hospitalizations to participating in 'a fire drill.'

  Canada

  Apr 27, 2021
  
• Ontario ICU doctors write letter to Ford government over COVID-19 variants, warn more measures needed

  'We are seeing younger patients on ventilators—many are parents of school-aged children. We are seeing entire families end up in our ICUs,' the doctors say.

  Health

  Apr 1, 2021
  
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• Ontario ICU capacity reaching critical level due to COVID-19 variants: hospital group

  "We don't have enough vaccines in arms to have vaccines make a difference in hospital capacity at this time."

  Health

  Mar 26, 2021
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• Coronavirus: Ontario patients to be ranked for life-saving care should ICUs become full

  It says patients who have a high likelihood of dying within a year will be lower priority and may not receive treatment at all if ICUs are full.

  Health

  Jan 18, 2021
• ‘The problem will be mostly staffing’: Ontario ICU doctor on hospital COVID-19 capacity concerns

  "In terms of my list of worries about how we're going to care for the surge of patients .. the problem will be mostly staffing based," said Dr. Brooks Fallis.

  Health

  Jan 15, 2021