More than 50 senior healthcare professionals met on February 17, 2020, to conduct a tabletop simulation to prepare for the arrival at the JGH of a patient with a confirmed case of COVID-19. The exercise was co-chaired and co-organized by Dr. Marc Afilalo, Chief of Emergency Services (centre in white coat), and Dr. Paul Brisebois (centre left, in dark jacket), an Emergency physician. (Click on this or any photo to enlarge it.)
90th anniversarySeptember 2024

90th anniversary flashback: Preparing the JGH for its first COVID-19 patients

Henry Mietkiewicz — September 9, 2024
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At a crucial meeting in February 2020, dozens of senior JGH healthcare professionals finalized plans to admit the first COVID-19 patients.

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Dr. Kaelan Gobeil Odai (centre), a resident in emergency medicine, intubates a manikin during an exercise in the JGH’s new Emergency Medicine Simulation Centre. Assisting him are Respiratory Therapist Irina Potlog (left) and Charbel Atallah, an Interim Nurse Consultant in the Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit, (Click on this photo to enlarge it.)
July 2023News

New simulation centre helps prepare Emergency staff for difficult real-life cases

Henry Mietkiewicz — July 5, 2023
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A new Emergency Medicine Simulation Centre that’s bright, roomy and technologically sophisticated has opened at the JGH.

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Screenshot from a JGH video: Healthcare providers use a manikin to simulate the treatment of a COVID-positive patient who had a cardiac arrest shortly after arriving at the hospital.
May 2020Santé Québec West-Central Montreal

JGH Zoom presentation on treating COVID-19 patients draws over 500 participants from Quebec hospitals

Henry Mietkiewicz — April 29, 2020
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To help fight COVID-19, healthcare providers across Quebec are viewing videos of simulation exercises, conducted by the JGH Emergency Medicine Simulation team.

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More than 50 senior healthcare professionals met on February 17 to conduct a tabletop simulation, in case a patient with a confirmed case of the coronavirus arrives at the JGH. The event was co-chaired and co-organized by Dr. Marc Afilalo (centre in white coat) and Dr. Paul Brisebois (left, in dark jacket).
February 2020News

Detailed plans reviewed to ensure JGH is ready for coronavirus patients

Fabrice Baro — February 24, 2020
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Tabletop simulation involves numerous inter-disciplinary experts A pivotal gathering of more than 50 senior JGH medical specialists and healthcare professionals has enabled the hospital to further heighten its state of preparedness, in case patients with confirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) are admitted for treatment. The JGH is one of …

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