Important survey about home respiratory support technology. Less than 1% of surveys are from a Canadian perspective‼️ Come on 🍁 colleagues, let's boost that number! 👉 www.shorturl.at/vDuBs

As Canada wakes up on this #WorldCOPDDay the #COPDBatonPass is live in Europe about to be passed to the Americas at 8am (to 4pm!) Eastern. Check it out 👉 copdbatonpass.org/live-event-2...

Post Extubation Noninvasive Respiratory Support for PARDS. Even ~10 yrs ago lots of use. Type differed by region w/ HFNC N.America & NIV Europe, Middle East/Asia/New Zealand. Great working w/ some of the #PARDIE team on this! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Want to learn about innovative🫁tech & how EIT can be used to find optimal PEEP levels? QR code or go here to register 👉https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/UQDYBirYRr-JEK5Yro9-0Q @sccmcriticalcare.bsky.social #RespiratoryCareCommittee

Last day of #RespiratoryTherapyWeek2025 . Lucky to live in Treaty 13 / Toronto with easy access to #StLawrenceMarket Shirt courtesy of #RespiratoryTherapySocietyofOntario @csrt.bsky.social

Day 6 #RespiratoryTherapyWeek2025. A quiet day at home to catch up. Including in my wild backyard. Shirt courtesy of #BOMImed #RTSO @csrt.bsky.social

Squeezing in Day 5 of #RespiratoryTherapyWeek2025 on the rooftop of PSC @sickkidsto.bsky.social ahead of the RT awards ceremony. Awesome views! #RTSO @csrt.bsky.social

Day 4 w/ my fellow RT peeps #SickKids for #RespiratoryTherapyWeek2025. Love doing the amazing work there. Design by Tiffany Leung. #RTSO @csrt.bsky.social @sickkidsvs.bsky.social

Day 3 of #RespiratoryTherapyWeek2025 🦖shirt taken this past summer on beautiful Brady's Beach in Bamfield BC (that's a lot of Bs 😁). Courtesy of Novus Medical Inc. @csrt.bsky.social

Day 2 of #RespiratoryTherapyWeek2025. A beauty Fall day at the most dynamic & diverse Uni that is my home base #OntarioTechUniversity. This is one of many shirts from #SickKids RT dept. @ontariotechu.bsky.social #RTSO @csrt.bsky.social @sickkidsto.bsky.social

OK folks Day 1 of #RespiratoryTherapyWeek2025. My newest shirt courtesy of the #RTSO and designed by Jenna Swan RT.

Learned and networked w/ a bunch of #RespiratoryTherapists at the RTSO's 2025 conference in the Blue Mountains.

Created BY Respiratory Therapists FOR Respiratory Therapy Kudos 👍 @csrt.bsky.social www.csrt.com/wp-content/u...

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. 👉 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

Don't miss the Canadian Thoracic Society / Société canadienne de thoracologie's Research Forum at #CanadianRespiratoryConference2026 ✨ Awards, networking, bragging rights, and the inaugural Beaver's Den 🦫 Visit cts-sct.ca/crc/ and see 👇 for more info. @cts-sct.bsky.social

Congrats to Tiffany Leung & team for winning an Inaugural Moez and Marissa Kassam #PICU Innovation Dragon’s Den! @sickkidsto.bsky.social Love seeing young dynamic #RespiratoryTherapists leading the way in innovations. 🙏 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... @sccmcriticalcare.bsky.social

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.

Worked 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! www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10....

How has mechanical ventilation changed in neonates post ❤️ surgery between 2000 & 2020? ⬇️Vt and DP & earlier liberation (⬆️NIV). Awesome working w/ LRGuerineau, A.Floh, VMasy, BFerreyro, LBrochard @sickkidsto.bsky.social @unityhealthto.bsky.social journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/...

There IS an underappreciation & insufficient funding of respiratory disease research & advocacy. NEED👉 good health provider communication, national strategies & patient-driven advocacy. www-sciencedirect-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/science/arti...

📣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 here👉 duke.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @sccmcriticalcare.bsky.social

100 days w/o an unplanned extubation in ALL 3 #SickKids ICUs. AMAZING! @sickkidsto.bsky.social

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

Honoured, thankful, lucky and NOT sorry for living on the best land in the world.

The @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 👉 cts-sct.ca/hmv-webinar-...

Meaningful research means knowing what is important to the people who use #HomeMechanicalVentilation. Take part, pass on🙏 #CanHMVr @sickkidsto.bsky.social

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. @uoft.bsky.social

Ah yes this is why I got into education: so I can watch 2 robots shitting into each others’ mouths

Remember all those Rapidly Manufactured Ventilators (RMVs) from COVID? Congrats🎉Katie Mikkelsen: ahead of print #ScopingReview of RMVs for her Masters work. @ontariotechu.bsky.social @marcozaccagnini.bsky.social Ginny Brunton, Ali Hosseini, Maria Tan www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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 😊🙏 #RSGSU @uoft.bsky.social

📢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 www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

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 I❤️ #RespiratoryTherapy 🙏 @sickkidsto.bsky.social gang: ShirleyQuach, JasonMacartney, KatieReise, LucianaRodriguezGuerineau, ZeliaDaSilva

Jen Thiele getting ready to chat about #SickKids iTASSK @sickkidsto.bsky.social

#CSRT2025 final day, starting w/ brunch, awards and honoured guests. @csrt.bsky.social

Home Mechanical Ventilation network meeting. A diverse group in the room. And interesting updates and info. #CSRT2025 @csrt.bsky.social

Day 2 #CSRT2025 morning sessions have once again been FAB-U-LOUS w/ Thomas Piraino, Roger Correia, Georgina Roman Sarita #RespiratoryTherapy super 🌟 🌟 🌟 @csrt.bsky.social @sickkidsto.bsky.social @uhnresearch.ca

So cool learning how Jason McCartney brought #RespiratoryTherapy to China at #CSRT2025 @csrt.bsky.social @sickkidsto.bsky.social

Love meeting up with RTs I've been honoured to work with during my career. Especially Rob Bryan who was instrumental in my 1st research job🙏 #CSRT2025 @csrt.bsky.social

Wow the amazing talks a.m. day1 at #CSRT2025. #RespiratoryTherapists are amazing. @csrt.bsky.social

Impressive work from a National QI collaborative on⬇️Pediatric UPEs.🍁#RespiratoryTherapy rep w/ Jason Macartney. @sickkidsto.bsky.social #PICU publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

Join the #SCCM Respiratory Care Section Journal Club w/ Dr. Ben White on AARC and #PALISI Critical Pediatric #Asthma Clinical Practice Guideline May 28, 2pm Eastern Register here: duke.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SocietyCriticalCareMedicine @palisinet.bsky.social

After taking part in a #CarrierSekaniCourse the impact of missing & murdered Indigenous Women has lingered in my mind. I'm hanging a couple of my red dresses in my back garden to remember...always. #NationalDayofAwarenessforMissingandMurderedIndigenousWomen #JaimeBlack #REDressProject #RedDressDay

Was awesome being back at Lakeridge Health Oshawa to chat about being a #RespiratoryTherapist and collaborative research. @lakeridge-health.bsky.social @ontariotechu.bsky.social

Highlights from my day #Sickkids in THE best department of #RespiratoryTherapy @sickkidsvs.bsky.social

Join the next SCCM Respiratory Care Section Journal Club w/ Prof Brady Scott on "Ventilation and Oxygenation During & After Adult #CRP: Changing Paradigms" April 22, 2-3 PM EDT. Register here: duke.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Article: doi.org/10.4187/resp... #SocietyCriticalCareMedicine

Presenting our #ChronicLungDisease & extreme #weather is #OntarioTechU #HealthSciences Dilothi Selvarajah. Picked for moderated sesh at National conference among PhDs, MDs & profs! 👏👏👏 @ontariotechu.bsky.social #CRC2025 #CanadianThoracicSociety