Background: As the COVID-19 pandemic created a surge in demand for critical care resources,
the province of Ontario, Canada, released the Adult Critical Care Clinical Emergency …

Introduction: As people in subacute facilities approach the end of life, the focus of their care
often shifts to comfort as they seek to return home. Interventions that aim to improve hospital-…

… Heidinger HBSc1, Ariane Downar1, Andrea Frolic PhD2,3, James Downar MD … Maves
RC, Downar J, Dichter JR, Hick JL, Devereaux A, Geiling JA, et al. Triage of Scarce Critical …

Goals of Care (GOC) is a longitudinal, multi-setting, and interprofessional practise aiming to
guide the use of life-sustaining therapies. We documented the perspectives of different …

Objective The Plan Well Guide™ (PWG) is a decision aid that empowers lay persons to
better understand different types of care and prepares them, and their substitute decision-makers…

Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the completion and content of the Goals of
Care (GOC) forms in three care settings in the province of Quebec, Canada. Methods: This is …

Background Neurologists need to be adept at disclosing prognosis and breaking bad news.
Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE) allow trainees to practice these skills. …

Continuous palliative sedation is an end-of-life practice that consists of inducing a state of
unconsciousness in patients who are approaching death to relieve them of severe and …

Background: Adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) are exposed to increasing amounts
of low-dose ionizing radiation (LDIR) from cardiac procedures. Cancer prevalence in this …

Auditory semantic novelty – a new meaningful sound in the context of a predictable acoustical
environment – can probe neural circuits involved in language processing. Aberrant …