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Respiratory therapist & academic @ontariotechu.bsky.social, SickKids, to help everyone breathe w/ ease. #TruthandReconciliation. Canadian music lover. Posts are my own.
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11.10.2025 22:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Created BY Respiratory Therapists FOR Respiratory Therapy
Kudos π @csrt.bsky.social
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SQuach & MZaccagnini leading the identification of priorities for a RESPIRATORY THERAPY-driven research agenda. Now the work begins for future research, continuing professional development, and policy advocacy work.
π CJRT: cjrt.ca/article/1437...
w/AWest, sponsored by @csrt.bsky.social
Happy to share projects on #Pediatric HFOV w/ KReise at #WCICC2025 in Vancouver.
Representing CDubsky, @sickkidsvs.bsky.social, @ontariotechu.bsky.social and #RespiratoryTherapists
Just like my waistline
16.09.2025 11:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hilarious
12.09.2025 23:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Don't miss the Canadian Thoracic Society / SociΓ©tΓ© canadienne de thoracologie's Research Forum at #CanadianRespiratoryConference2026
β¨ Awards, networking, bragging rights, and the inaugural Beaver's Den π¦«
Visit cts-sct.ca/crc/ and see π for more info.
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Congrats to Tiffany Leung & team for winning an Inaugural Moez and Marissa Kassam #PICU Innovation Dragonβs Den! @sickkidsto.bsky.social
Love seeing young dynamic #RespiratoryTherapists leading the way in innovations.
π Kassam Family for the gift: www.sickkidsfoundation.com/aboutus/news...
Another great Journal Club hosted by the Society of Critical Care Medicine led by Dr. Shane George, lead author of the article.
Register here: duke.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Article here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Want to learn or re-learn about the important of #DrivingPressure as part of mechanical ventilation management? This @sccmcriticalcare.bsky.social journal club for you. QR code or duke.zoom.us/j/92845053563 to join.
11.08.2025 18:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Worked on a report w/ a fab & diverse group from the @atscommunity.bsky.social on non-invasive upper respiratory tract sampling. Super interesting, a much needed area of research. Susan Toth & I were the only #RTs. Thanks for #1 leadership & opp Dr. William Bain!
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How has mechanical ventilation changed in neonates post β€οΈ surgery between 2000 & 2020? β¬οΈVt and DP & earlier liberation (β¬οΈNIV). Awesome working w/ LRGuerineau,
A.Floh, VMasy, BFerreyro, LBrochard
@sickkidsto.bsky.social @unityhealthto.bsky.social
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There IS an underappreciation & insufficient funding of respiratory disease research & advocacy. NEEDπ good health provider communication, national strategies & patient-driven advocacy.
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12.07.2025 22:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π£Another fab Society of Critical Care Medicine Respiratory Care Section Journal Club on July 23, 2pm EST. Join Dr. Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila discussing Patient-Ventilator Asynchrony.
Register hereπ duke.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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100 days w/o an unplanned extubation in ALL 3 #SickKids ICUs. AMAZING!
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More evidence showing the important of #RespiratoryTherapists in the care of children & adults using #HomeMechanicalVentilation. But more research and evidence is needed to continue demonstrating this!
S.Quach, L.Istanboulian, J.Walker, D.Brooks, R.Goldstein
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A fabulous evening under a perfect summer sky listening to awesome music & eating and drinking fab food.
Thank you @ronsexsmith.bsky.social and
#RedstoneWineries
See ya there π· π₯
03.07.2025 19:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Honoured, thankful, lucky and NOT sorry for living on the best land in the world.
01.07.2025 13:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The @cts-sct.bsky.social Home Mechanical Ventilation Assembly have an awesome new HMV Webinar Series featuring presentations that aim to support clinicians managing patients requiring long-term home ventilatory support. It's quite the line up of experts!
Check it out π cts-sct.ca/hmv-webinar-...
Meaningful research means knowing what is important to the people who use #HomeMechanicalVentilation. Take part, pass onπ
#CanHMVr
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Honoured to receive the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto outstanding leadership alumni award. Bittersweet as Dr. Angela Colantonio ends her tenure as RSI's 1st Director.
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BBC news item illustrated with a female teacher working ar her desktop computer who looks like sheβs staring into the abyss: Teachers can use AI to save time on marking, new guidance says The government says Al should only be used for "low-stakes" marking Hazel Shearing > Education correspondent
Ah yes this is why I got into education: so I can watch 2 robots shitting into each othersβ mouths
10.06.2025 05:29 β π 165 π 40 π¬ 6 π 2And Mom's are all knowing!
10.06.2025 11:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Remember all those Rapidly Manufactured Ventilators (RMVs) from COVID? CongratsπKatie Mikkelsen: ahead of print #ScopingReview of RMVs for her Masters work.
@ontariotechu.bsky.social @marcozaccagnini.bsky.social Ginny Brunton, Ali Hosseini, Maria Tan
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Lovely to chat & exchange ideas w/ the students of my grad program #RehabilitationSciencesInstitute, U of T at the Student Alumni Networking Event (SANE). I also learned a lot from fellow alum Tyler Saumur ππ
#RSGSU @uoft.bsky.social
π’Important & much needed work to validate this unique Pediatric Airway Management & Intubation Support Competency Assessment Tool (PAMIS). Kudos to #SickKids RT 1st authors @KatherineReise, Roger Correia and Christina Bertazzo. @sickkidsto.bsky.social
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Yup!
[on the #RespiratoryTherapy conference hotel key that I just noticed!]
Honoured to get the Colya Kaminiarz award for outstanding professional contributions @csrt.bsky.social. V meaningful as it's supported by peers in a profession Iβ€οΈ #RespiratoryTherapy
π @sickkidsto.bsky.social gang: ShirleyQuach, JasonMacartney, KatieReise, LucianaRodriguezGuerineau, ZeliaDaSilva