2024-02-11 from thestar.com

It’s 6:37 p.m. at Toronto Western Hospital’s emergency department and Dr. Tessa Ringer is about two hours into her eight-hour shift. She has just seen her seventh patient, a senior complaining of a severe earache, and is en route to fetch some gauze and ear drops. 

As she makes her way along the bright corridor of the ED’s ambulatory care section, a voice suddenly comes over the intercom calling out a “Code Resus,” the most serious and urgent medical alarm signalling to staff to drop whatever it is they are doing and head to the resuscitation room. A Code Resus is reserved for patients who need fast, life-saving interventions for conditions such as heart attack, stroke or respiratory failure.

In an instant, Ringer spins on her heels and starts running to the ED’s east side, where the resuscitation room sits next to the entrance doors to the department’s acute-patient area.

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