LungFIT: Pulmonary Rehab Podcast

In this episode, I discuss a paper that was published in the British Columbia Medical Journal, entitled

“Climate impact of inhaler therapy in the Fraser Health region, 2016-2021” that estimates the impact of pressured metered-dose inhaler therapy in a region of Canada. The link to the paper is here.

I also mention two papers on this topic, one that was published in the Lancet, the link to that is here, and the European Respiratory Journal, the link to that is here.

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In this episode, our graduate students Debora, Sunaina & Justin share their thoughts, feelings & experiences about their fieldwork in Northern BC.

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In this episode, research assistant Guilherme Grzelkovski shares his experiences of being a new doctor in Brazil during the height of the pandemic to landing here in Vancouver in Dr. Pat Camp's lab.  Guilherme joined our lab in May and brings a big wealth of knowledge to our team.

If you are an IMG or want to know more about this program, feel free to contact Guilherme here. This link may also be helpful for anyone looking for additional information: Practice in BC.

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In this episode, I share some of my work related to lung health in partnership with Carrier Sekani Family Services and First Nations communities in north central British Columbia. I talk a bit about why I am doing this work, then described some of the activities we did on our recent trip a couple of weeks ago. I mention some of the principles I bring as the researcher to this work, in terms of responsibility, opportunity, flexibility and accountability, and why I’m drawn to the unpredictable nature of research down outside of the hospital or university setting.

If you’d like to know more about Carrier Sekani Family Services, their website is www.csfs.org

If you’d like to hear me speak about this work in more detail, feel free to email me at [email protected]

If you’d like to read a couple of papers which describe this work, you can find them here:
1. Scoping Review of Telehealth Use by Indigenous Populations in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1357633X231158835

2. “Bayis Ilh Tus – A Strong Breath: a community-based research project to estimate the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in remote and rural First Nations communities in Canada: research protocol. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-020-01240-1

I welcome your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes. You can contact me via the comments section here on the LungFIT website.

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In this episode, I revisit the topic of COVID19 and pulmonary rehab, with a focus on rehab for patients with Long COVID. I mention a number of resources and papers, listed below:

1.  Perumal R, Shunmugam L, Naidoo K et al. Long COVID: a review and proposed visualization of the complexity of long COVID. Front Immunol 2023; 14: 1117464. Accessed July 4, 2023 at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10157068/

2.  Journal of Health Economics and Outcomes Research Blog. Economic Effects of Long COVID Even Larger Than We Thought. Published December 13, 2022. Accessed July 4, 2023 at https://jheor.org/post/1746-economic-effects-of-long-covid-even-larger-than-we-thought

3.  Barker-Davies RM, O’Sullivan O, Pumi Prathima Senaratne K, et al. The Stanford Hall consensus statement for post-COVID-19 rehabilitation. Br J Sports Med 2020; 949-59. Accessed July 4, 2023 at https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/54/16/949.full.pdf

4.  Cochrane Rehabilitation. REH-COVER – Rapid Living Systematic Reviews. Accessed July 4, 2023 at https://rehabilitation.cochrane.org/covid-19/reh-cover-rapid-living-systematic-reviews

5.  Canadian Physiotherapy Association. Rehabilitation for Clients with Post COVID-19 Condition (Long COVID). Guidance for Canadian Rehabilitation and Exercise Professionals. Accessed July 4, 2023 at https://physiotherapy.ca/app/uploads/2022/08/long_covid_en-final-rev2.pdf

6.  World Health Organization. Clinical Management of COVID19: living guideline. V6.0. Accessed July 4, 2023 at https://app.magicapp.org/#/guideline/j1WBYn/section/j7A12z

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ARE PULSE OXIMETERS RACIST? WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT HEALTH EQUITY AND STRUCTURAL RACISM AT ATS 2023

On this episode I share some of what I learned about health equity and structural racism while at the American Thoracic Society conference in Washington, DC, with a focus on spirometry reference equations and pulse oximetry.

 I mention several papers in this episode, here they are with their links.

Baugh AD, Shiboski S, Hansel NN, et al. Reconsidering the utility of race-specific lung function prediction equations. Amer J Respir Crit Care Med 2021; 205(7): 819-829.

Henry NR, Hanson AC, Schulte PJ, et al. Disparities in hypoxemia detection by pulse oximetry across self-identified racial groups and associations with clinical outcomes. Crit Care Med 2022; 50(2): 204-211.

 Fawzy A, Tianshi DW, Wang K et al. Racial and ethnic discrepancy in pulse oximetry and delayed identification of treatment eligibility among patients with COVID-19. JAMA Intern Med 2022; 182(7): 730-738.

Jubran A, Tobin MJ. Reliability of pulse oximetry in titrating supplemental oxygen therapy in ventilator-dependent patients. Chest 1990; 97(6): 1420-1425.

On this episode, I talk about Communities of Practice and how they can be one way to combat professional isolation, and cultivate your professional development. Communities of Practice have emerged as really powerful mechanisms for facilitating knowledge sharing, collaboration, and learning and we are excited to dig into this today!

Link to the article about the 7 principles of communities of practice as coined by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger here.

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On this journal club episode, I talk about this paper in-press in the Journal of Physiotherapy, “In adults with advanced lung disease, the 1-minute sit-to-stand test underestimates exertional desaturation compared with the 6-minute walk test: an observational study” by Kathryn Watson.

You can find that paper here.

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In this episode, I talk about academic writing. I talk about some of the barriers that people have about their writing, and offer some solutions.

I talk about my workshops and retreats – if you would like to hire me for a in-person or virtual workshop or retreat at your institution, contact me at [email protected]

I talk about some books I’ve read, they can be found on Amazon. I’m not a formal sponsor of these books by the way. I talk about the book “How to Write a Lot” by Paul Silvia. Amazon has this book here: https://a.co/d/4eE7M8q . I mention “smart notes” – an interesting book on this is by Sönke Ahrens and Amazon has this book here: https://a.co/d/iw6PrLD . If you can’t visualize a pomodoro timer, Amazon has one here: https://a.co/d/7xTV57L

A few of the prompts I use for writing:

My paper/project is about…

The stage I am at is…

What I am interested in finding out is…

The things I need help with are…

The main purpose of this paper was…

The main finding was…

This paper was interesting to me because…

I would like to learn more about…because…

I disagreed with this approach because…

To incorporate this paper in my own work I need to clarify…

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After a refreshing break, we are back & are changing it up around here!  Looking forward to bringing fresh ideas, discussion & new content to LungFIT!  Thank  you for your continued support & we hope you stay along with us as we shift this podcast into a more global discussion around research, education, clinical care & of course lung health!

I welcome your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes. You can contact me via the comments section here on the LungFIT website.

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