Scientific Presentations of the Critical Care Canada Forum 2009
October 25-28, 2009, Toronto, Canada
Arabi, Yaseen. Abdominal Perfusion Pressure in Cirrhosis. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/abdominal-pertusion-pressure.pdf
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Arabi, Yaseen. Adrenal Dysfunction in Sepsis- More than Cortisol Deficiency. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/adrenal-dysfunction-in-sepsis.pdf
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Arabi, Yaseen. Critical Care Simulation and Patient Safety: The Experience in Saudi Arabia. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/critical-care-simulation.pdf
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Arabi, Yaseen. How to Put Together and Manage a Research Team. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/research-team.pdf
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Arabi, Yaseen. Saudi Critical Care Society. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/saudi-critical-care-society.pdf
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Bagshaw, Sean. Novel Extracorporeal Therapies. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/novel-extracorporeal-therapies.pdf
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Bagshaw, Sean. Antimicrobial Dosing During Continuous RRT. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/antimicrobials-in-rrt.pdf
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Bohn, Desmond. Paediatric Heart Disease – Using Physiology to Guide Decision Making. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/paediatric-heart-disease.pdf
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Bosma, Karen. An Introduction to Proportional Assist Ventilation. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/proportional-assist-ventilation.pdf
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Bosma, Karen. Achieving Restful Ventilation: The Impact of Patient-Ventilator Interaction on Sleep. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/achieving-restful-ventilation.pdf
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Capone, Antonio. Clinical Management of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/clinical-management-of-ash.pdf
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Christian, Maj. Mike. Protecting Health Care Workers During a Pandemic. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Hoffman La-Roche. Available at:
/presentations/2009/protecting-heath-care-workers.pdf
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Christian, Maj. Mike. Surge Management in Patients with Respiratory Failure. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/surge-management.pdf
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Christian, Maj. Mike. Triage – Update. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/triage-update.pdf
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Christian, Maj. Mike. HIV Patients in the ICU. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/hiv-patients-in-the-icu.pdf
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Cuthbertson, Brian. Steroids and Etomidate. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/sterioids-and-etomidate.pdf
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Cuthbertson, Brian. The PRaCTICAL study. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/practical-study.pdf
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Detsky, Allan. Industry and Medicine Sin or Salvation. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/industry-and-medicine.pdf
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Doctor, Allan. A Rational Skeptic’s View of Prone Positioning in Children. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/prone-positioning-in-children.pdf
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Doctor, Allan. The Secret Lives of Erythrocytes Vascular Signaling in Flowing Blood. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/erythrocytes.pdf
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Dos santos, Claudia. Gene Profiling in Sepsis-Induced Myocardial Depression. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/myocardial-depression.pdf
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Dos santos, Claudia. Application of Genomic Technology in acute lung injury. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/genomic-technology.pdf
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Durbin, Charles Jr. Does “Normal” Tidal Ventilation Injury Normal Lungs? Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/tidal-ventilation.pdf
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Durbin, Charles Jr. Controversies Surrounding Ventilation in Patients with Head Injury. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/ventilation-in-patients-with-head-injury.pdf
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Epstein, Scott. Controversies in Extubation. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/controversies-in-extubation.pdf
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Epstein, Scott. Patient Ventilator Dyssynchrony: Management. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/patient-ventilator-dyssynchrony.pdf
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Esteban, Andrés. How to ventilate the obese patients? It is really different? Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/ventilation-of-obese-patients.pdf
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Esteban, Andrés. The Lung in ARDS: Culprit or Victim? Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/lung-in-ards.pdf
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Esteban, Andrés. The prediction and prevention of the weaning failure:Myth or reality? Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/weaning-failure.pdf
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Evans, Timothy. Albumin as a therapeutic intervention. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/albumin.pdf
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Evans, Timothy. SIRS: still a useful concept? The pro side. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/sirs-pro-side.pdf
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Evans, Timothy. Critical Care Societies around the world: The UK perspective. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/critical-care-uk.pdf
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Evans, Timothy. Critical care in special situations: Avoiding complications after thoracic surgery. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/thoracic-surgery.pdf
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Fergusson, Dean. The impact of co-enrollment in clinical trials. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/co-enrollment.pdf
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Fergusson, Dean. Bleeding, Anti-fibrinolytics, Cardiac Surgery & the BART trial. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/anti-fibrinolytics.pdf
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Fergusson, Dean. Effect of stored blood in the critically ill. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/stored-blood.pdf
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Gajic, Ognjen. Bedside prognostic tools in ARDS. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/bedside-prognostic-tools-in-ards.pdf
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Gajic, Ognjen. Hospital of the Future: Creating Ambient Intelligence to Facilitate Safe Care. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/hospital-of-the-future.pdf
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Granton, John. Canadian Critical Care Society. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/canadian-critical-care-society.pdf
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Granton, John. Pulmonary vasodilators. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/pulmonary-vasodilators.pdf
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Garland, Allan. Arterial Lines: Good or Bad? Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/arterial-lines.pdf
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Garland, Allan. Editorial: ICU Resident Work Schedules Study. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/editorial-icu-resident-work.pdf
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Garland, Allan. Evidence Based Medicine: Why Good Studies Turn Out To Be Wrong. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/evidence-based-medicine.pdf
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Garland, Allan. Overnight ICU Physician Coverage: Do We Need to Stay in Hospital 24-7? Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/overnight-icu-physician.pdf
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Hall, Jesse. Animation of patients to speed recovery from respiratory failure. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/animation-of-patients.pdf
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Hall, Jesse. Animation of patients to speed recovery from respiratory failure (Practicalities). Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/animation-practicalities.pdf
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Hebert, Paul. Patient-oriented research: An International Perspective. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/patient-oriented-research.pdf
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Henzler, Dietrich. Spontaneous Breathing in Mechanical Ventilation – Earlier is Better. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/spontaneous-breathing.pdf
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Henzler, Dietrich. ECMO for ARDS. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/ecmo-for-ards.pdf
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Herridge, Margaret. Rehabilitation after Critical Illness- Scope of the Problem. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/rehab-after-critical-illness.pdf
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Herridge, Margaret. Bereavement Programs after Critical Illness. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/bereavement-programs-after-critical-illness.pdf
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Herridge, Margaret. Legacy of Critical Illness: Brain, Muscles and Nerves. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/legacy-of-critical-illness.pdf
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Hess, Dean. Inhaled Drugs During Mechanical Ventilation. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at: /presentations/2009/inhaled-drugs.pdf
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Jacka, Michael. Emotions & Intelligence in the ICU. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/emotions-and-intelligence.pdf
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Jacka, Michael. Cardiac Ischemia in the Critically Ill. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/cardiac-ischemia.pdf
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Kress, John. Early Mobilization in Mechanically Ventilated ICU Patients. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/early-mobilization.pdf
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Kress, John. ICU Sedation. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/icu-sedation.pdf
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Lacroix, Jacques. Outcome – challenges in pediatric ICU. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/challenges-in-pediatric-icu.pdf
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Lapinsky, Stephen. Role of CRRT in Sepsis. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/crrt-in-sepsis.pdf
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Lapinsky, Stephen. ICU Management in Pregnancy. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/icu-management-in-pregnancy.pdf
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Lapinsky, Stephen. Electronic Patient Record in Critical Care. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/electronic-patient-record.pdf
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Laupland, Kevin. Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) in severe infections. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/ivig-in-severe-infections.pdf
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Laupland, Kevin. New anti-microbials. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/new-anti-microbials.pdf
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Lazar, Neil. Deceased Organ Donation. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/deceased-organ-donation.pdf
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Marini, John. Co-Factors for VILI and Lung Protection. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/co-factors-for-vili-and-lung-protection.pdf
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Marini, John. How Best to Recruit The Injured Lung? Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/recruiting-the-injured-lung.pdf
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Marini, John. Ventilating Severe Airflow Obstruction. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/ventilating-severe-airflow-obstruction.pdf
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Marshall, John. 30 Years of Sepsis Trials. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/thirty-years-of-sepsis-trials.pdf
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Marshall, John. InFACT: Collaborative Investigator-Led Research in Critical Care. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/infact.pdf
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Martin, Claudio. Canadian ICU Collaborative: Preventing VAP and CLA-BSI. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/canadian-icu-collaborative.pdf
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Nathens, Avery. Trauma Performance Improvement. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/trauma-performance-improvement.pdf
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Nathens, Avery. CritiCall Ontario: Successes and Challenges. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/criticall-ontario.pdf
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Papadakos, Peter. Burn Management – 2009 Update for Intensivists. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/burn-management.pdf
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Pierre, Andrew. Would you use these lungs? Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/would-you-use-these-lungs.pdf
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Post, Martin, The “omics” revolution. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/the-omics-revolution.pdf
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Rose, Louise. Rescue Therapy for H1N1: Different than Usual ARDS? Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/rescue-therapy-for-h1n1.pdf
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Rose, Louise. Pain Assessment for Critically-Ill Patients Unable to Self-Report Pain. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/pain-assessment.pdf
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Ross, Heather. End Stage CHF – Hemodynamic Tailoring in the ICU. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/end-stage-chf.pdf
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Rotstein, Coleman. When is Combination Antifungal Therapy Warranted in the ICU? Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/combination-antifungal-therapy.pdf
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Scales, Damon. Can we predict outcome in haematological malignancy? Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/haematological-malignancy.pdf
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Scales, Damon. The TRACMAN Trial Editorial Comment. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/tracman.pdf
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Seely, Andrew. Variability Analysis Next generation monitoring in the ICU? Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/variability-analysis.pdf
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Shanley, Thomas. Epigenetics: Emerging Role in Regulation Gene Expression in Sepsis. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/epigenetics.pdf
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Singh, Jeffrey. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Critical Care, Regionalization and Transport Safety. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/transport-safety.pdf
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Singh, Jeffrey. Mechanical Ventilation in the Brain-Injured Patient. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/mechanical-ventilation.pdf
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Skrobik, Yoanna. ICU Fungal infections: an overview. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/fungal-infections.pdf
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Skrobik, Yoanna. Invasive Fungal Infections in the ICU. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/invasive-fungal-infections.pdf
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Skrobik, Yoanna. Delirium in the ICU setting. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/delirium-management.pdf
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Thompson, B. Taylor. Considerations for Control Group Selection in non-pharmacologic intervention trials. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/control-group-selection.pdf
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Thompson, B. Taylor. APC: Should APC be Used, Abandoned, or Studied for Septic Shock? Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/apc-for-septic-shock.pdf
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Weijer, Charles. Ethical challenges in ICU research. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/ethical-challenges-in-icu-research.pdf
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Weijer, Charles. When can physicians say “no” to families and patients? Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/when-can-physicians-say-no.pdf
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Wong, Hector. Profiling Gene Expression in Septic Shock. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/profiling-gene-expression.pdf
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Wong, Hector. Transcriptomics. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/transcriptomics.pdf
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Wong, Natalie. Simulation and Cardiac arrest. Critical Care Canada Forum 2009. Available at:
/presentations/2009/simulation-and-cardiac-arrest.pdf
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Oral Presentations
Congratulations Winners:
- Dr. Bryan Yipp – Garner King Award – 1st Place – Trainee Oral presentation
- Dr. Rachel Khadaroo – Allen Spanier Award – 2nd – Trainee Oral presentation
- Dr. Barbara Haas – Honourable Mention – Trainee Oral competition
- Dr. Ewan Goligher – Best Clinical poster
- Dr. Marina Mourtzakis – Best Basic / Translational Science Poster
- Ms. Lori Hand – Best Research Poster for Nursing and Allied Health
- Ms Kim Streitenberger – Best Quality Improvement Poster for Nursing and Allied Health