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Roze’s aspiration journey will help diagnose other kids with swallowing trouble
Roze's aspiration journey will be used to guide the development of a digital app to help diagnose swallowing impairment and aspiration in children.
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Allied Health Research Symposium
Date: 17 February 2026
Time: 8:00am-4:00pm
Venue: Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Education Centre, Herston, Queensland, 4029
Metro North Health and Metro South Health are pleased to invite you to its second Allied Health Research Symposium.
Advanced Life Support - Level 2
Date: 19 – 20 February 2026
Time: TBC
Venue: The Prince Charles Hospital
2-day course focusing on developing advanced skills in managing the deteriorating patient and cardiac arrest
Advanced Life Support - Level 1 Course
Date: 11 March 2026
Time: TBC
Venue: The Prince Charles Hospital
Level 1 courses are for those clinicians who want general competence in airway management and basic life support for a deteriorating patient and cardiac arrest. Suitable if you normally are part of team rather than the lead.
Masks are an important defence against respiratory illness and protection from dust and other airborne hazards.Caboolture Hospital
Bribie Island Satellite Health Centre
Bribie Island Satellite Health Centre
103 First Avenue
BONGAREE QLD 4507
Phone: (07) 3410 2800
Caboolture Satellite Health Centre
Caboolture Satellite Health Centre
15 Rowe Street
CABOOLTURE QLD 4510
Phone: (07) 5433 7555
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Caboolture patient Roze’s aspiration journey is helping researchers build an app that will diagnose other children with the same condition, all throughout the world. 👏🤳
Six-year-old Roze was born at Caboolture Hospital and was experiencing ongoing respiratory and feeding difficulties, which explains years of illness, fatigue and repeated infections.
Following investigations, clinicians found a deep interarytenoid groove, (also known as a minor laryngeal cleft,) that causes Roze to aspirate fluids into her airway. This means food or fluids sometimes enter her airway when swallowing, which can lead to serious short and long-term lung disease in children. 🗣️
Roze and her mum Emma are now contributing to a study at Caboolture Hospital where the team, led by Adj Assoc Prof Thuy Frakking, are developing a digital app to diagnose swallowing impairment.
“The development of an accurate algorithm to classify aspiration in children will help progress to the development of an app that families and clinicians can access worldwide without the need for x-ray,” Adj Assoc Prof Frakking said.
Well done Roze and Em.
This is awesome! Good work!!
Have friends in New Zealand with a 7 month old who is going through this. After 3.5 months in Nicu, he went home, still with a feeding tube. They wait, after interventionist surgery, treatments etc to see if there is any reflex, then get then to introduction of solids, if they can start exercising their mouth, tongue, throat & oesophagus with pureed foods, swallow adequately, clear their mouth, airway- got to make sure food goes down the right pipe - not the airway & lungs
Andrew Palombo wow look at this accomplishment and advancement, how amazing !
Well done young lady for helping others
Nardia-Lea Patterson bit late for us
Sam Gilmour Nicole Lobwein
Jones Yuen Sara Crawford 💜
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Families in Brisbane's North will be grinning from ear to ear to learn a new Community Health Screening Program (CHSP) is almost up and running. 👂😃
Come February, families who haven't had the opportunity to check their children's hearing can do so within easy reach of home.
Jed is a Clinical Assistant in Audiology and will be visiting sites in the community, assessing children's hearing with his portable audiometric screening equipment. 🎧
"Children aged between nine months and 16 years living in the Caboolture, Redcliffe, Deception Bay, Kilcoy and surrounding areas will now be able have their hearing screened in an accessible location, outside of the hospital," shares Jed.
"It's a great way to identify any potential issues and can guide families regarding the need for further testing."
More information on the Community Hearing Screening Program can be found on the website via the link in the comments. 👇👇👇
Metro North Health no link?
Awesome cause majority of jearing places in these areas dont do kids
If your child has been screened a few times publicly and through private providers to find they have perfect hearing. Would Jed also be able to assess for auditory processing difficulties?
This should be introduced into primary schools at the same time as the eye screening test.
Great initiative but you should have given more thought to name. CHSP is widely known as Commonwealth Home Support Program. Prepare yourself for a lot irrelevant enquires. Just saying!
YES
Is this a service that could visit a local community kindergarten?
Caboolture Hospital recently welcomed its first baby of the year with baby Payton born in the early hours of New Year’s Day. 🐣👶🥳
Payton arrived at 2:28am on 1 January 2026, bringing a joyful start to the year for proud parents Yasmin and Ben from Bribie Island.
Peyton tipped the scales at 7lb 1oz (3,240 grams), measuring 52 centimetres long.
The arrival was a special surprise for the family, with Payton originally due on 6 January 2026.
“We were surprised that she came on the very first day of the year,” Yasmin said.
“We were so fortunate to have had an amazing birth with a beautiful midwife,” she said.
Beautiful, congratulations Yasmin Larissa Herden x
Absolutely adorable! 🥰
congratulations
Beautiful
💟🌸 Best Wishes 🌸💟 Enjoy your Precious Baby 💟🌸😇🌸💟
Congratulations and Happy New Year 💖🥳 My Payton turned 18 last month, she was only 2oz smaller than this dear bub, but certainly didn’t arrive early. She had to be booted out 10 days after her due date 😂
Congrats guys! She's beautiful ❤️
How great are the midwives there! So good! Congrats on your little bub she is gorgeous 😍
❤️🥰❤️🥰 no wayyy and so perfect both of you ❤️🥰❤️🥰
Congratulations
Congratulations Yasmin and Ben on the birth of your gorgeous baby Payton.
Beautiful photo Yas xoxo
😍🥰😍😍
Yasmin Larissa Herden
Congratulations
