Outstanding care, always.

This program provides urgent and emergent care at two clinical settings in Kingston. As the destination for all non-ambulatory patients, the emergency department provides urgent and emergent care for seriously ill and injured patients in southeastern Ontario while Hotel Dieu Hospital focuses on ambulatory patients with less serious forms of injury or illness. In addition, the department provides on-call toxicology expertise through the Ontario regional Poison Information Centre available to practitioners across the province. Specialized services and support are also provided to patients who have been the victims of sexual assault or domestic violence.

Research

Emergency Medicine assumes an active role in many multidisciplinary, multicentre projects that focus primarily on patient care, care protocols, and clinical trials in the emergency department setting. Research activity is concentrated in several areas including injury, acute cardiovascular presentations, pre-hospital care, and acetaminophen-induced toxicity. The department maintains involvement, at a national level, in research directed at the development of decision-making rules for emergency room clinical practices. Furthermore, the Department’s Injury Research Group takes on the responsibility of leading or co-ordinating multiple national studies on injury prevention and injury patterns.