CAT's very own Dr. Sinead O'Brien presenting this evening! Make sure to tune in! Follow @HSEMidWest RCSI Anaesthesia and Critical Care @COAIrl

⭐️Doctors⭐️ It’s Medical Council Election time! Please trust me with your vote Let’s continue to push for #change through empathic and engaged leadership Retweets welcome 🤗 #IMCElections medicalcouncil.ie/about-us/elect…

New to obstetric anaesthesia? Moving to an obstetric rotation in July? Irish Society of Obstetric Anaesthesia is running an obstetric anaesthesia bootcamp! 📅 9th June 2023 ⏰ 13.30-16.45 📍The Pillar Centre, MMUH 💰 free Places limited so book early CPD from @COAIrl (pending) Booking info 👇🏼

CUH hiring registrar for 12mo training post combining 6mo Renal / 6 months ICU from July 2023. Post well suited to those considering a career in an acute hospital specialty and counts towards ICM training req’s. Enqs to [email protected]

Please visit Saint Emlyn's to read about Max and the reasons why we need the AMAX4 algorithm in anaphylaxis/asthma. I promise you'll learn from this tragic story. Thank you Ben and Tamara. Joining Team DFTB LITFL to get the learning out there. stemlynsblog.org/just-a-routine…

AMAX4 | Just a routine resuscitation I had a severe bronchospasm anaphylaxis 2 days ago. I gave adrenaline within 2 minutes and intubated within 5 minutes. I had done an ANZCA Anaphylaxis workshop and it saved this persons life. amax4.com

Buy yourself a bunch of dried organic lavender for a brilliant cause at the Marina Market this weekend 💜 buff.ly/3KyFVxY

Dr Michael O'Connor, National Clinical Advisor and Group Lead, HSE Acute Operations speaks now and states the need to improve access times to ICU, particularly that 50% of patients should be admitted within 1 hour of a decision to admit. This is only 6% of patients currently.

The people destroying Dublin city centre talk up what it means to be "patriotic", all while the non-Irish healthcare staff work around the clock since this afternoon to respond to today's tragedy

Evidence behind the importance of monitoring the 4 hr straight leg raise after neuraxial block, recently presented by NiamhEH #3dc23 #RAAlertbracelet helps clinicians and patients do this

Letter: GEM crisis exacerbated by the national banks refusing to give student loans for medical school fees imt.ie/opinion/letter…

The minimum effective dose (ED90) of prophylactic oxytocin infusion during cesarean delivery: 💉Patients with obesity need significantly larger doses of oxytocin infusion compared to non-obese pts Read the full paper below by Tyagi et al University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi obstetanesthesia.com/article/S0959-…

The importance of building up your fitness before surgery irishtimes.com/health/your-fa…

One of our anaesthetic colleagues Dr Manuela Afrasinei is missing, please share and contact the helpline listed if you have any information. irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4138…

We remain very concerned for our lovely colleague, Manuela's, safety. Please, it would be greatly appreciated if people could continue to share. 🙏🙏 #MISSING #MISSINGPERSON

Reminder about the trainee forum on in lecture E in 10 minutes! Town hall forum to hear what’s going on in the college

Can we get some of these for the new children's hospital?

All non-urgent health services are cancelled on Fri, Jan 24 due to #StormÉowyn. This includes outpatient apts, primary care clinics, day care for older people, home help, therapies, and public health nursing. Emergency services remain operational. Check: hse.ie/disruptions

Benefits of intrathecal morphine are highlighted in #PROSPECT guidance. Non-pulmonary complications are important to consider in analgesic plans but what side-effects of anaesthesia are acceptable to patients? bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-…

The trauma resuscitation anaesthesia course will be running in Cork next month. Open to consultants in anaesthesia/ICM and post CSCST fellows.ASSERT Centre, UCC. NDTP Trauma Care Ireland ucc.ie/en/assert/trai…