Toronto hospitals brace for the worst, add tents to accommodate third wave surge
by Michael Ranger, News Staff
Posted Apr 16, 2021 6:26 am EDT
Last Updated Apr 16, 2021 at 8:18 am EDT
Exterior view of Toronto Western Hospital. GOOGLE
More Toronto hospitals are bracing for impact as infection rates continue to spiral out of control.
The Toronto Star reports Toronto Western Hospital and Toronto General Hospital, both part of the University Health Network (UHN), are setting up large tents to serve as additional patient waiting areas to help reduce crowding in their emergency departments.
The deputy medical director of emergency departments at UHN says at this point, there are just too many people coming in.
Toronto s new field hospital in a parking lot at Sunnybrook expected to open next week
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A parking lot turned mobile field hospital at Sunnybrook is preparing to open in Toronto as early as Monday.
Rows of green tents are filling a lot at the north end of Sunnybrook’s Bayview Campus, ready to house recovering and recovered COVID-19 patients.
The construction of the field hospital, known as Sunnybrook s Mobile Health Unit, began in February and is expected to open next week. Construction of the Mobile Health Unit is nearly complete, and oversight is beginning to transfer from the contractor to Sunnybrook. It is now being set up for patient care, with plans to open 20 patient beds by the end of April 2021, according to the hospital s Instagram.
TORONTO An intensive care physician in Toronto says ICU triage is an eventuality as the province combats a third wave of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Michael Warner, head of critical care at Michael Garron Hospital, has been very vocal recently about the need for the Ontario government to implement more restrictions to reduce hospitalizations as the health-care system is swamped with COVID-19 patients. With a record 1,955 COVID-19 patients in Ontario hospitals in the past 24 hours and 701 of those in ICUs, Warner says hospitals are nearing the point of having to triage patients. “I mean every hospital has gone through simulation of this. It s been socialized, it’s been practiced, it s our greatest fear, and I actually can t see a situation where some form of triage doesn t take place,” he told CTV News Toronto.
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Toronto (April 12, 2021) - Researchers from University Health Network have developed and validated an innovative deep learning model to predict a patient s long-term outcome after receiving a liver transplant.
First of its kind in the field of Transplantation, this model is the result from a collaboration between the Ajmera Transplant Centre and Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. The study, published in
Lancet Digital Health, shows it can significantly improve long-term survival and quality of life for liver transplant recipients. Historically, we have seen good advances in one-year post-transplant outcomes, but survival in the longer term hasn t significantly improved in the past decades, explains Dr. Mamatha Bhat, a hepatologist with the Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN and co-senior author of the study.