Trauma
Trauma transfer requests must go through the Access Care Coordination Centre (ACC).
Trauma Office & Concussion Clinic
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Trauma
The Montreal Children’s Hospital (MCH) of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) is a provincially designated Pediatric and Adolescent Trauma Centre, a Neurotrauma Centre of Expertise and an important player in the provincial trauma network.
MCH Trauma Centre
To ensure rapid access to expertise, all transfer requests from referring hospitals to the Trauma Centre must go through the Access Care Coordination Centre (ACC).
The referring emergentologist must communicate the transfer request to the ACC at 514-412-4242. An automated system will be activated; press 1 for trauma.
Initial pre-transfer documents MUST be faxed to the Emergency Department Green Zone at 514-412-4217.
Services
The Montreal Children’s Hospital of the MUHC is a supra-regional provincially designated Tertiary Care Level Trauma Centre and a Neurotrauma Centre of Expertise, with five inter-professional clinical programs:
- Neurotrauma Program
- Trauma Program
- Burn Trauma Program
- Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Program and Concussion Clinic
- Trauma Team Leader Program
The MCH Trauma Centre’s approach to trauma care is inter-professional and involves the interplay and close collaboration of more than 30 departments and services. This practice takes place from the patient’s initial arrival in the Emergency Department, through the critical care phases, early rehabilitation and recovery stages and eventual transfer to an appropriate Rehabilitation Centre, community resource or return home with comprehensive coordinated follow-up care.
Rapid access to expert medical, surgical, nursing, rehabilitation and psychosocial trauma care, state-of-the-art equipment and a well-developed efficient and innovative trauma care system is paramount to increasing the chances of a positive outcome.
Team
Director
Debbie Friedman, BSc pht, M.Mgmt
Associate Professor Pediatrics & Pediatric Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
Director, Trauma
Director, Canadian Hospitals Injury Prevention and Reporting Program (CHIRPP)
Director Trauma Research & Injury Prevention Programs
Dr. Dan Poenaru
Medical Director Trauma Program and TTL program
Administrative Team
Fatemah Bahrpeyman
Administrative Coordinator
Concussion Clinic
Amanda Fitzgerald
Trauma Adminstrator
Julijana Trpkovic
Trauma Administrative Technician
Trauma Coordinators
Liane Fransblow
Injury Prevention Program
Lisa Grilli
MTBI Program and Concussion Clinic
Glenn Keays
CHIRPP
Erin Mackasey
Trauma Program, Neurotrama Program, Burn Trauma Program
Debbie Schichtman
MTBI Program and Concussion Clinic
Clinical Staff
Christine Beaulieu
Physiotherapist
Dr. Yves Beaulieu
Neuropsychologist
Nadia Brisson
Speech-Language Pathologist
Dr. Saskia Ferrar
Neuropsychologist
Dr. Karine Gauthier
Neuropsychologist
Meredith Hooker
Speech-Language Pathologist
Helen Magdalinos
Certified Child Life Specialist
Line Parent
Occupational Therapist
Eleni Parigoris
Social Worker
Uriel Pierre
Physiotherapist
Elizabeth Plante
Audiology
Joelle St-Arnaud
Spiritual Care
Chloe Vanier
Physiotherapist
Other rehabilitation, psychosocial, and medical consultants from Neurology, ENT, Emergency Department and others as needed for the specific patient and family.
Trauma Research Program
Dr. Isabelle Gagnon