Weather-related transport delays in critical care in Ontario
Dr. Jacquie Mincer, PGY2
Supervisors: Dr. Elif Bilgic, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, McMaster University & Dr. Anna Gunz, Associate Professor at Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University
As the climate crisis evolves, there will be ongoing increases in the frequency and severity of temperature and weather extremes. These weather and temperature events have the potential to disrupt the ability for land and air ambulance services to continue to operate, which could affect the ability for patients requiring critical care transport across the province to get to destinations that can provide the specialized care that they require. To understand the degree of potential service disruption, we first must have a good understanding of the baseline operational status of these systems. Our study will examine existing service disruptions due to extreme temperature and weather events that result in transport delays in Ontario, across the largest air medical transport service in North America, the Ornge Air Ambulance service.
Learning Objective:
- Invite discussion around the study’s proposed objectives and methodology.
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