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A Canadian first
A Canadian first

A Canadian first

Date8/6/1983
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Original Toronto Star caption: A Canadian first: Taheera Suleman is in her Scarborough home now with her mother, Shireen, and the machine that keeps her alive. At 6 months of age, she became the youngest person in Canada to be sent home on total parenteral nutrition (TPN), a system that feeds her for 12 hours a day through a vein leading to her heart. One day, her mother hopes she'll actually be able to eat something.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0026144F
Before taking her son home, Mrs. Lierosara has to learn how to change the teflon tube Mark must still wear in his trachea and how to handle the plus i(...)
Before taking her son home, Mrs. Lierosara has to learn how to change the teflon tube Mark must still wear in his trachea and how to handle the plus i(...)
11/1/1968
Young patient gets an outing, Four-year-old Joann Armsworthy, who's in Princess Margaret Hospital for treatment, gets a ride through Allan Gardens yes(...)
Young patient gets an outing, Four-year-old Joann Armsworthy, who's in Princess Margaret Hospital for treatment, gets a ride through Allan Gardens yes(...)
6/10/1973
Boy's idea brightens surgical masks
Boy's idea brightens surgical masks
8/16/1988
Jack Tootill holds a nuclear-powered heart pacer like the one, Canada's first, he received in an operation yesterday at Toronto General Hospital. It'll last 10 years
Jack Tootill holds a nuclear-powered heart pacer like the one, Canada's first, he received in an operation yesterday at Toronto General Hospital. It'll last 10 years
10/9/1973
First paramedics
First paramedics
4/9/1984
Communicating is bliss: Andrew Spencer, 5, has learned to communicate for the first time through a Blissymbol board
Communicating is bliss: Andrew Spencer, 5, has learned to communicate for the first time through a Blissymbol board
4/15/1984
Checking for broken wiring in the heart of a patient who uses a battery-powered pacemaker to transmit electrical impulses to the heart's pumping chamb(...)
Checking for broken wiring in the heart of a patient who uses a battery-powered pacemaker to transmit electrical impulses to the heart's pumping chamb(...)
12/11/1968
Pacemaker that keeps 76-year-old Eli Parsons' heart beating at a regular speed fits into palm of hand
Pacemaker that keeps 76-year-old Eli Parsons' heart beating at a regular speed fits into palm of hand
12/11/1968
Help for the Heart, Wearing nose mask that uses his body heart to warm the air he breathes, heart patient Denis Colwell leaves Toronto's Rumsey Road R(...)
Help for the Heart, Wearing nose mask that uses his body heart to warm the air he breathes, heart patient Denis Colwell leaves Toronto's Rumsey Road R(...)
2/4/1970
Whole body counter, one of medicine's most sophisticated machines, scans body of Patricia Bond for radioactivity, and then relays the count to a compu(...)
Whole body counter, one of medicine's most sophisticated machines, scans body of Patricia Bond for radioactivity, and then relays the count to a compu(...)
3/12/1969
Technologist Vera Mraz monitors the patient's brain waves during surgery to see if anything is going wrong
Technologist Vera Mraz monitors the patient's brain waves during surgery to see if anything is going wrong
8/25/1987
Reducing risk: X-ray technician Marie Kiley prepares to do a mammogram on a patient at a Scarborough clinic
Reducing risk: X-ray technician Marie Kiley prepares to do a mammogram on a patient at a Scarborough clinic
1/30/1992