Although Emergency Department (ED) crowding with admitted inpatients (trolley patients) has been with us for well over a decade, January 2017 has...
Press Release No end in sight to ED Crowding
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Although we are barely a few weeks into the 2016/17 winter, the number of patients on trolleys has passed almost twice the figure that the HSE's...
IAEM welcomes publication of Major Trauma Audit National Report 2014 – 2015
The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine has long advocated for significant improvements to be made to the way that major trauma care is...
Dr Fergal Hickey – solutions to ED crowding
Although we are barely a few weeks into the 2016/17 winter, the number of patients on trolleys...
IAEM Press Release noting yet more dysfunctional HSE responses to worsening ED crowding
It has long been established that Ireland is seriously short of acute hospital beds. Equally, too many of these beds are occupied by patients who...
2016 Annual Scientific Meeting promises to be the best ever
Next week’s Irish Association for Emergency Medicine’s 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting has a particular focus on the care of the older patient and is...