D'Arsigny | Department of Critical Care | School of Medicine

Dr. Christine D'Arsigny MD, FRCPC, FCCP

Position(s)

Associate Professor

Respirology / Critical Care

Contact Info

Dr. Christine D’Arsigny completed her MDCM (Medicinæ Doctorem et Chirurgiæ Magistrum) at McGill University in 1992. That was then followed by degrees in Internal Medicine (McGill University) in 1995, Respirology (Queen’s University) in 1997 and Critical Care Medicine (McGill University) in 1998. She has dual certification and billing privileges in Quebec and Ontario.

Dr D’Arsigny joined the Department of Medicine in 1998, working in both Critical Care Medicine and Respirology. Her Respirology practice (1998-early 2022) was a combination of interventional pulmonology (bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, chest tube insertions, thoracentesis) and general Respirology, with an expertise in pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism and vasculitis. She started and ran the Queen’s University/KHSC Pulmonary Hypertension clinic from 2000-Feb 2022. She was active in dyspnea, pulmonary hypertension and CTEPH research.

Dr D’Arsigny is now working primarily in Critical Care Medicine (CCM). She Started the CCM subspecialty training 2-year curriculum in 1999 and was the Training Program Director from 2002-2010. Her clinical interests include acute and chronic mechanical ventilation, liberation from mechanical ventilation, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism and neuro-critical care medicine. She is the interim quality improvement (QI) director for CCM and is involved in QI projects surrounding liberation from mechanical ventilation, blood conservation, airway safety, and thrombosis in hospitalized medicine.

She is an active member and educator for N-ACES and is a member on the Royal College Subspecialty CCM committee. She has worked on the CCM national wellness document, is part of a national CCM education committee and a National PE committee, with prior representation on multiple local, provincial and national committees.

She is still active in thrombosis research, mechanical ventilation research and multicenter CCM clinical trials.

Research Interests:
Intensive care management, Post operative care after cardiac and thoracic surgery, Neurocritical care, General and interventional Respirology, Pulmonary Hypertension, Thromboembolic Disease

Clinical/Educational areas of focus:
Respirology-related disease in the ICU, Mechanical ventilation/liberation from mechanical ventilation, Thrombosis complications, Critical illness weakness

Team