COVID-19 patients overwhelm the system.This meeting comes as the province is in the midst of a third wave of the pandemic. Variants in Alberta schools: An in-depth look at climbing cases and spread The invitation, which was shared with Global News, describes the Alberta Critical Care Triage Framework as protocol to be used if “a dire situation” were to occur where “the demand for life sustaining critical care support is greater than the available resources.”The framework includes specific protocols for both adults and children.The aim of it, as stated in the email, is to help staff make “the difficult determination of how to allocate resources to critically ill patients when there are not enough critical-care resources for everyone.”“It.