Current Studies
SWiFT Canada (Study of Whole Blood in Frontline Trauma):
A pilot randomized controlled trial assessing prehospital whole blood versus component therapy in traumatic hemorrhage.
EpiDOSE: Epinephrine Dose – Optimal vs Standard Evaluation Trial
A pivotal clinical trial comparing the usual dose of epinephrine to a lower dose during the treatment of adults experiencing an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
PROMPT: Partial REBOA Outcomes Multicenter ProspecTive Study
A multi-center prospective observational study of noncompressible torso hemorrhage (NCTH) patients being treated with the pREBOA-PRO™ catheter for partial or full occlusion as standard of care.
Resuscitation Repository and Research DataBase (R3DB)
A database for out-of-hospital resuscitation research, in collaboration with Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Fire Services across the Greater Toronto and Horseshoe Area.
Critical Care Response Units
Critical care response units (CCRU) are comprised of a specially trained physician/paramedic team, responding to prehospital urban trauma by helicopter and rapid response vehicles. These teams can bring life saving interventions such as blood transfusion, thoracotomy, thoracostomy, and more directly to the patient to improve survival from trauma. Our goal is to assess the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of advanced prehospital interventions, delivered by a prehospital CCRU, in reducing prehospital deaths from trauma in Toronto.
Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (CanROC)
The Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (CanROC) brings the power of collaboration of all Canadian Resuscitation researchers and EMS agency partners with the goal of increasing survival from cardiac arrest. CanROC is now an ever expanding National Registry of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) including most provinces and soon hopefully more than 80% of all SCAs in Canada.
Canadian Prehospital and Transport Transfusion (CAN-PATT)
Canadian Prehospital and Transport Transfusion (CAN-PATT) is a newly established network of critical care transport and transfusion medicine physicians, paramedics and scientists whose vision is to provide timely and equitable access to out of hospital blood transfusion in Canada.