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When Penny Tasevski was asked to describe her father-in-law Aleko Tasevski before he fell critically ill with COVID-19, her voice cracked. "He lives for us [his family], and before he was hospitalized he made my day, every single day." Penny has been...
Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is one of the first hospitals in Canada to reduce the amount of blood it collects for testing, reducing hospital patient strain and demand on donated blood products.
Early on May 7 at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), Robert Louis “Robbie” Sherren became the first adult heart donor in Canada to donate after circulatory death, which happens when a person’s heart permanently stops beating.
KHSC's Critical Care Program is embracing a new way of helping to deliver patient- and family-centred care. As of this month, nurses in the program are carrying out standardized patient bedside handovers. "We hear from our families and patients that...
It's common for patients in need of critical care to experience some loss of muscle strength during their stay in an intensive care unit (ICU). Unfortunately, even if the patient was strong and mobile before their illness or injury, this can cause...
Over the course of the pandemic, there has been one question about the COVID-19 virus that has continued to resurface. Why does the virus seem to more seriously affect certain patients more than others? Researchers at Kingston Health Sciences Centre...
KHSC is now only the second hospital in Ontario to have a portable MRI machine for clinical use in its ICU, thanks to the generosity of donor Stephen Sorensen who made a $500,000 donation through the University Hospitals Kingston Foundation.
Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is working to make sure patients keep as much of their blood as possible with a common-sense approach that has reduced blood transfusions by 46 per cent in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
A new joint study by a clinician-researcher at Kingston General Hospital and the University of Calgary aims to create a framework to assist intensive care physicians in partnering with patient's families, to enable and empower them as advocates and...
Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has been recognized by Ontario Health’s Trillium Gift of Life Network for its outstanding efforts to integrate organ and tissue donation into quality end-of-life care.
