Ottawa Citizen
Hospitals save time, lives
As patients were triaged at this crash site, the most severely injured were transferred directly to the Civic campus. Less severe were transferred to other hospitals. In the past, patients would have been transferred to the closest hospital, stabilized and then transferred again. This transfer process saw the loss of critical time to save the patient.
With this accident, paramedics passing the closest hospitals, took severely injured patients directly to the Civic and saved valuable time and possibly lives.
The Civic, as the trauma site, is equipped and staffed to accept multiple severely injured patients at one time. This type of hospital organization does not exist in all large communities.
With the Ottawa Hospital merger and co-operation of other hospitals severely injured patients in Ottawa can be assured they will get the best of care as fast as possible.
Chris Carruthers, MD,
Interim Chief of Staff,
Bruyère Continuing Care
A former chief of staff,
The Ottawa Hospital