Topic outline

  • Refresher Learning module: Critical Care Units (ICU/ED)

    Important Practice Change: 
    This course indicates that a notification call is required for patients life-sustained with non-invasive ventilation (e.g., BiPAP or CPAP) in advance of death when a GIFT+ trigger is met.

    Effective winter 2025, notifications for patients life-sustained with non-invasive ventilation are only required:

    • Within one hour after death
    • If the patient/family brings up the topic of donation
    • For patients who have requested MAID:  after the first confirmation of eligibility assessment with a reasonably foreseeable natural death, after the second confirmation of eligibility assessment when natural death is not reasonably foreseeable


    This course will be updated in the future to reflect the change.


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      2025-04-01 Completed

      This course is designed by Ontario Health (Trillium Gift of Life Network) for nurses and other healthcare professionals who work in critical care environments with mechanically ventilated patients, such as the intensive care unit or emergency department.  

      This course should be completed on an annual basis to maintain competencies in the leading practices of organ and tissue donation.

      Course Length: The length of this course varies depending on the learner's knowledge of leading practices in organ and tissue donation.  This course can be completed in as few as 15 minutes