Where Every Minute Counts

WHERE EVERY MINUTE COUNTS…
We are delighted to invite you to the inaugural Toronto Resuscitation Conference, hosted by FIRST60 in partnership with Ornge and the Unity Health Toronto Critical Care Research Pillar.

Set in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, adjacent to St. Michael’s Hospital in downtown Toronto, the conference will bring together interprofessional clinicians, scientists, learners and resuscitation enthusiasts on Tuesday, June 10th 800-1600.

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Homer Tien

Dr. Tien is a visionary leader and clinician in resuscitation spanning a career across military and civilian contexts. He is currently President and CEO of Ornge, Ontario’s provincial air ambulance, and also a trauma surgeon at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He holds the rank of Colonel in the Canadian Forces Health Services and is the first to hold the Canadian Forces Major Sir Frederick Banting Term Chair in Military Trauma Research.

Canadian Prehospital Transfusion Summit
Monday, June 9th (Closed Meeting)

In collaboration with FIRST60 and Unity Health, the Inaugural Canadian Prehospital Transfusion Summit, facilitated by Dr. Brodie Nolan and Dr. Michael Peddle, will bring together leading experts from across Canada, including representatives from each of the Critical Care Transport Organizations and the Canadian Armed Forces. Together, these experts will explore emerging innovations in bleed management, address the barriers to standardized care, and shape the future of pre-hospital transfusion within Canada. 

This first of its kind event will provide the opportunity to discuss and explore:                              

  • Current and future best practices for prehospital bleed management.  
  • Current product utilization across leading Critical Care Transport Organizations within Canada.  
  • The future of prehospital transfusion in Canada, including the use of Freeze-dried plasma and whole blood.  
  • Research priority setting in Canadian prehospital transfusion.  

Join the conversation on @BMMTalks using #CPTS2025, be a part of the community of Canadian healthcare professionals dedicated to advancing best practices and innovation in patient bleed management. 

Toronto Resuscitation Conference Program
Tuesday, June 10th

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Talks from the Day

Revolutionizing Prehospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation

Katie Dainty & Ian Drennan – TRC Rumble! Rhythms and Recovery: The role of ROSC vs Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Arrest
Marc Boutet – Multiple Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patient Events: A Case Series from a National Cardiac Arrest Dataset
Hania Siddiqui – Characteristics and Predictors of Opioid-Associated Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Retrospective Analysis in Southern Ontario

Simon Cahen – Association between socioeconomic status and EMS management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in France: do you need to be wealthy to survive? A multicenter retrospective cohort study

Revolutionizing Prehospital Trauma Resuscitation

Brodie Nolan & Johannes Vopelius – TRC Rumble! Stay and play or randomize and run: The role of randomization in prehospital study design
Brodie Nolan – What’s old is new again: SWiFT Canada and whole blood in the Canadian prehospital environment

Johannes Vopelius – Geography, time, injuries and interventions – Getting it Right

Fayad Al-Haimus – Identifying risk factors for early fibrinogen replacement in bleeding trauma patients: A single-center, retrospective cohort study
Persaud – Prehospital needle thoracostomy for the treatment of massive hemothoraces in patients suffering traumatic cardiac arrest: An autopsy case series

New Frontiers: Cardiac Arrest

Steve Lin & Garrick Mok – TRC Rumble! Drugs or Depth: Reimagining epinephrine and CPR coaching in cardiac arrest
Ashwin Pillai – Review of alternative areas of chest compression during cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Evelyn Dell – Severe accidental hypothermia and cardiac arrest: The development of an urban inner-city emergency department pathway

New Frontiers: In-hospital Trauma Care

Andrew Petrosoniak – From silos to systems: lessons learned from building a provincial MHP
Brodie Nolan – Better data for better decisions: The future of personalized trauma care
Lowyl Notario – The feasibility of monitoring trauma patients with a wireless, wearable doppler ultrasound

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