When neuromuscular patients have 24-hour breathing issues, a hole is usually made surgically in their windpipe and a tube inserted that is hooked up to a ventilator, to help them breathe. However, the CANVent Program, developed at The Ottawa Hospital, uses nonsurgical, noninvasive ways to help patients breathe on their own.

In any disaster or Code Orange, medical attention for victims is crucial. But they, along with their families and loved ones, also need spiritual and emotional support. That’s what inspired The Ottawa Hospital to develop the Emergency Spiritual Care Assistance Team (ESCAT) Guide – the first of its kind in North America.

Debi Lascelle (left) and Stephen Aronson are patient advisors on a lung screening pilot program. Both Lascelle and Aronson were diagnosed with lung cancer and treated successfully after taking part in an early screening study. When people found out that Debi Lascelle had been diagnosed with lung cancer, they almost always reacted the same way. […]

Senator Art Eggleton (right) was impressed by The Ottawa Hospital’s 3D printing program, saying it would be an enormous benefit for patients. He and other senators learned about the program from Dr. Frank Rybicki (left) and Dr. Adnan Sheikh (second from right). When patients can see a 3D-printed model of their own arthritic knee joint […]

June 29, 2011 – The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) has opened a new $15.8M laboratory that is uniquely designed to accelerate the development and testing of new cancer therapies. The Centre for Innovative Cancer Research (CICR) was built and equipped with $6.3M from the Government of Canada through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) […]