SickKids VS
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -SickKids VS takes you to the frontlines in the fight for child health. From wonder drugs that treat hypermutant tumours to machines that keep hearts beating outside the body, each episode tells the story of a different breakthrough, revealing all the hope and heartache on the tumultuous road to discovery.
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Episodes
VS COVID-19: Inside the Fight at SickKids
May 28, 2020 05:00 - 20 minutes - 48.9 MBDr. Upton Allen, Chief of Infectious Diseases at SickKids, on how COVID-19 affects children, why scientists around the world underestimated the threat, and his research to better understand the virus.
VS Cardiac Arrest: AI That Can See Heart Attacks Coming
May 21, 2020 05:00 - 12 minutes - 15.2 MBWhen cardiac arrest strikes, it’s dangerous, even deadly. But what if we could see it coming? What if we could turn patient data into a predictive tool? A SickKids ICU doctor and computer scientist are figuring out a way to do just that—with artificial intelligence.
VS Cystic Fibrosis: The Rise of Individualized Medicine
May 14, 2020 05:00 - 20 minutes - 49.2 MBIn the 1950s, most kids with cystic fibrosis died in childhood. Today, things are a lot different. One SickKids patient, Mac Robertson, isn’t just surviving. He’s thriving. He’s a strong, six-foot teenager. He plays elite baseball. And, some days, he forgets he even has it. So, how’d we get here? And what does SickKids have to do with it?
VS Borders: Nurse Training in Ghana
May 07, 2020 05:00 - 17 minutes - 42 MBTen years ago, paediatric care in Ghana was nearly non-existent. There were few paediatricians, and even fewer paediatric nurses. Because of that, children died—many before their fifth birthday. So, SickKids started a nurse training program. Now, ten years later, the change is unmistakable.
Borders
May 07, 2020 05:00 - 17 minutes - 42 MBTen years ago, paediatric care in Ghana was nearly non-existent. There were few paediatricians, and even fewer paediatric nurses. Because of that, children died—many before their fifth birthday. So, SickKids started a nurse training program. Now, ten years later, the change is unmistakable.
VS Borders: Nurse Training in Ghana
May 07, 2020 05:00 - 17 minutes - 42 MBTen years ago, paediatric care in Ghana was nearly non-existent. There were few paediatricians, and even fewer paediatric nurses. Because of that, children died—many before their fifth birthday. So, SickKids started a nurse training program. Now, ten years later, the change is unmistakable.
VS Seizures: The Promise of Deep Brain Stimulation
April 30, 2020 05:00 - 17 minutes - 42.8 MBAndi was having 200 seizures a day. It was unbearable—for her and her family. But nothing seemed to help. Until they met Dr. George Ibrahim at SickKids. He wanted to try something radical, a treatment which had never been used on a child in Canada: deep brain stimulation.
Seizures
April 30, 2020 05:00 - 17 minutes - 42.8 MBAndi was having 200 seizures a day. It was unbearable—for her and her family. But nothing seemed to help. Until they met Dr. George Ibrahim at SickKids. He wanted to try something radical, a treatment which had never been used on a child in Canada: deep brain stimulation.
Hypermutant Tumours
April 23, 2020 05:00 - 14 minutes - 36.1 MBKids diagnosed with a deadly and aggressive cancer predisposition syndrome had no hope—until now. SickKids Drs. Uri Tabori and Eric Bouffet have discovered a way to treat these patients with drugs that unleash the power of the immune system. It’s called immunotherapy. And it’s the closest thing we’ve found to a cure.
VS Hypermutant Tumours: Unleashing the Power of the Immune System
April 23, 2020 05:00 - 14 minutes - 36.1 MBKids diagnosed with a deadly and aggressive cancer predisposition syndrome had no hope—until now. SickKids Drs. Uri Tabori and Eric Bouffet have discovered a way to treat these patients with drugs that unleash the power of the immune system. It’s called immunotherapy. And it’s the closest thing we’ve found to a cure.
VS Hypermutant Tumours: Unleashing the Power of the Immune System
April 23, 2020 05:00 - 14 minutes - 36.1 MBKids diagnosed with a deadly and aggressive cancer predisposition syndrome had no hope—until now. SickKids Drs. Uri Tabori and Eric Bouffet have discovered a way to treat these patients with drugs that unleash the power of the immune system. It’s called immunotherapy. And it’s the closest thing we’ve found to a cure.
VS Broken Hearts: Building a Machine to Keep Donor Hearts Beating Outside the Body
April 16, 2020 05:00 - 13 minutes - 15.6 MB50 kids in Canada are waitlisted for a new heart each year. Of those, 30-35 will get one, while others must keep waiting, some for years. But SickKids surgeon Dr. Osami Honjo thinks he has a solution. A way to expand the donor pool by keeping hearts beating outside the body. He calls it the Heart in a Box.
Broken Hearts
April 16, 2020 05:00 - 13 minutes - 15.6 MB50 kids in Canada are waitlisted for a new heart each year. Of those, 30-35 will get one, while others must keep waiting, some for years. But SickKids surgeon Dr. Osami Honjo thinks he has a solution. A way to expand the donor pool by keeping hearts beating outside the body. He calls it the Heart in a Box.
Trailer
April 06, 2020 05:00 - 1 minute - 2.16 MBSickKids has been behind some of the biggest breakthroughs in child health. Today, we turn our sights to the next great challenges: non-stop seizures and hard-to-cure cancers, heart transplants and cystic fibrosis. Welcome to the frontlines. Welcome to SickKids VS.