WCICC : 17th World Congress of Intensive & Critical Care

The Canadian Critical Care Society is a national specialty society representing Adult and Paediatric Critical Care Medicine physicians in Canada. The practice of Critical Care Medicine in Canada is multidisciplinary and CCCS members hold base specialty certification in anaesthesia, medicine, paediatrics, emergency medicine or surgery, and surgical subspecialties such as cardiac surgery and neurosurgery.

The CCCS mission is to promote and enhance Critical Care Medicine in Canada by espousing the philosophy of collaborative multidisciplinary practice to promote research, education and patient care. The Society is involved in Critical Care Medicine education in association with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as well as research with the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.