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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · 1d

Your songs are definitely a 🔦 for me

Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · 24d

Created BY Respiratory Therapists FOR Respiratory Therapy
Kudos 👍 @csrt.bsky.social

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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · 24d

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

Establishing research priorities for the Respiratory Therapy profession in Canada: A modified Delphi study | Published in Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy

By Shirley Quach, Marco Zaccagnini & 2 more. RTs have limited influence in shaping the research agenda that guides their profession. This study aims to identify research priorities grounded in the uni...

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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · 25d

Happy to share projects on #Pediatric HFOV w/ KReise at #WCICC2025 in Vancouver.

Representing CDubsky, @sickkidsvs.bsky.social, @ontariotechu.bsky.social and #RespiratoryTherapists

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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · 27d

Just like my waistline

Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Sep 12

Hilarious

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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Sep 12

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

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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Sep 9

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...

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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Aug 11

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.

Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Aug 4

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....

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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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Evolution of Mechanical Ventilation Practices in Neonatal... : Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

1, and 2020. Setting: Quaternary institution with a dedicated cardiac PICU in Toronto, ON, Canada. Patients: Neonates (≤ 28 d) receiving MV after cardiac surgery. Interventions: None. Measur...

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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Jul 20

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...

Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Jul 12

I look forward to hearing the song you write based on this 😁

Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Jul 9

📣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

Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Jul 7

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....

Respiratory Therapists’ role in caring for ventilator assisted individuals in the community: A scoping review

Optimal patient flow, which frees critical care beds for those most in need, is improved when ventilator-assisted individuals (VAIs) can efficiently transition to safe environments such as complex ...

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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Jul 4

A fabulous evening under a perfect summer sky listening to awesome music & eating and drinking fab food.

Thank you @ronsexsmith.bsky.social and
#RedstoneWineries

Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Jul 3

See ya there 🍷 🥂

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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Jun 27

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-...

HMV Webinar Series

HMV Webinar Series The Home Mechanical Ventilation Assembly presents the HMV Webinar Series featuring presentations that aim to support clinicians managing patients requiring long-term home ventilato...

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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Jun 24

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

#CanHMVr
@sickkidsto.bsky.social

Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

BBC news item illustrated with a female teacher working ar her desktop computer who looks like she’s 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

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Mika Nonoyama @mikarrt.bsky.social · Jun 10

And Mom's are all knowing!

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