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Ottawa’s hospitals stand together to help the region’s children and youth

OTTAWA – November 17, 2022 – Hospitals in Ottawa are ready to help the region’s children, youth and families get the timely care they need, as directed today by Ontario Health. We are all happy to do our part in helping manage the sustained and unprecedented surge CHEO has been experiencing this fall.

Here’s what families need to know

• Young people are always welcome at the Emergency Departments of the region’s non-pediatric hospitals.
• In a directive issued by Ontario Health, all youth aged 16+...

First-of-its kind study examines whether app-based mindfulness can improve concussion recovery

OTTAWA, Canada – Nov. 15, 2022 – Can mindfulness-based intervention help improve concussion symptoms? A study being conducted at the CHEO Research Institute may provide the answer with the help of an innovative mobile application and advanced brain imaging techniques.

Digital health company Mobio Interactive (MI) and the CHEO Research Institute are collaborating on a randomized clinical trial (RCT) investigating the potential benefits of mindfulness-based intervention...

Rare, Deadly Genetic Disease Successfully Treated in Utero for First Time 

Toddler Thriving After Deaths of Siblings with Same Disorder   

Using a protocol developed at UC San Francisco, physicians have successfully treated a fetus with a devastating genetic disorder for the first time, and the child is now thriving as a one-year-old, a case study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports.  

“This treatment expands the repertoire...

CHEO opens a second Intensive Care Unit. You can help keep kids out of it.

On the heels of adding beds to the existing Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), CHEO has opened a second PICU to address the overflow of critically ill babies and young children. Over the past few weeks, CHEO has seen an early arrival of the peak viral season driven by acute viral respiratory infections including RSV, flu, COVID and other viruses. These are at levels never before seen in CHEO’s 48-year history.

“Unprecedented...

Pediatric hospitals making mealtime safer for children, youth fed through a tube

November 3, 2022 – Ontario’s specialty pediatric hospitals are standardizing the type of feeding tube equipment they use for children and youth, making the administration of nutrition and medications safer. By end of January 2023, hospitals with the Children’s Health Coalition will all be using ENFit feeding tube connectors. 

ENFit, a global patient-safety initiative, makes mealtime and medication administration by tube as safe as possible by...