EMP/IAEM Statement regarding choking rescue devices
A number of suction-based airway clearance devices for the treatment of choking are available in Ireland. The Emergency Medicine Programme and the Irish Association of Emergency... Read More
IAEM News
Could it be AD?
The Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust have developed a training video for medical professionals “Could it be Aortic Dissection?” which IAEM is pleased to support. There... Read More
EBEEM Examination
EBEEM (European Board Examination in Emergency Medicine) is a joint collaboration between EUSEM and UEMS section of Emergency Medicine. Find out more about EBEEM at... Read More
ASM 2022 Abstract Deadline Extended
The abstract submission deadline for this year’s ASM has been EXTENDED to 23.59 on Monday 22nd August. Instructions for authors are available on the submission... Read More
ASM 2022 Call for Abstracts
Abstract submission for this year’s ASM is now open via https://iaem2022.exordo.com/. The ASM will take place at the Slieve Russell Hotel in Co. Cavan on Thursday 20th and... Read More
Emergency Medicine Day 2022
To mark Emergency Medicine Day on 27th May 2022 EUSEM will be hosting a webinar titled “Burnout in EM professionals: Now it’s time to take... Read More
IAEM Annual Scientific Meeting 2021 – Abstract submission deadline extended
The IAEM Annual Scientific Meeting 2021 will be held exclusively online Thursday 14-Friday 15 October with the theme of ‘Reset. Innovate. Rejuvenate.’ The abstract submission... Read More
Developing Emergency Medicine in Ireland launch
On Wednesday 7th July IAEM will hold a lunchtime launch of ‘Developing Emergency Medicine in Ireland’ at 13.00. The launch will be streamed via this... Read More
IEMTA Quality Improvement Webinar 23 October 2020
IEMTA have organised a quality improvement webinar on Friday 23rd October 2020 aimed at consultants, NCHDs, ANPs and nurses working in both adult and paediatric... Read More
EBEEM Part A Exam
The next sitting of EuSEM’s EBEEM Part A exam will be held on Friday 11 September 2020 (time TBC). Due to the COVID restrictions this... Read More
IAEM 2020 – Virtual Meeting
The IAEM ASM will run as an online event this year on Saturday 10th October 2020. Please click HERE to view a message from Dr. Emily... Read More
Emergency Medicine Research/Good Clinical Practice workshop
On Friday 7th February 2020 IAEM are supporting an Emergency Medicine Research/Good Clinical Practice workshop in RCSI. The day will cover setting out an Emergency... Read More
My Vision for Emergency Medicine in Ireland Essays
As part of our 30th anniversary celebrations, IAEM asked Emergency Medicine trainees to submit an essay entitled ‘My Vision for Emergency Medicine in Ireland’. Thank... Read More
IAEM Survey
As part of our 30th anniversary, IAEM are conducting a survey of doctors working in (or who have previously worked in) Emergency Medicine in Ireland. ... Read More
30th Anniversary of IAEM
2019 marks the 30th anniversary of IAEM, and we will be celebrating throughout the year with a series of events, podcasts and celebrations, culminating with... Read More
Emergency Medicine Day – 27 May
To mark the anniversary of the day the European Society for Emergency Medicine was founded, 27 May is Emergency Medicine day in Europe. IAEM is... Read More
2019 Annual Scientific Meeting
The IAEM ASM for 2019 will be held in the Clayton Hotel, Sligo on 7-8 November 2019. The dates of the ASM are changing for... Read More
Are you coming to IAEM?
So this is it, the IAEM programme is live and it is jam-packed full of Irish and international speakers This year the conference theme is... Read More
Register for POCUS workshops
This year IAEM Annual meeting will feature 2 parallel POCUS workshops on Wednesday 17th October Rapid Ultrasound in Shock and Hypotension (RUSH) is an evidence... Read More
Registration is open!
Registration is open for the IAEM Annual Scientific meeting running from Wednesday October 17th to Friday 19th in the Castleknock Hotel, Dublin This year promises... Read More
‘Think Aorta’ learning tools to be delivered to Irish EDs
In July 2018 ‘Think Aorta’ learning tools will be delivered to Irish Emergency Departments to help raise awareness of Aortic Dissection. The ‘Think Aorta’ campaign... Read More
IAEM Annual Scientific Meeting 2018
The IAEM Annual Scientific Meeting 2018 will take place in the Castleknock Hotel from October 17th to October 19th. It will be co-ordinated by... Read More
Learn ultrasound with Sono 24/7
Sono 24/7 is a new Irish educational group that specialises in point of care ultrasound (POCUS) education. Our objective is to provide structure, expertise and... Read More
Address by Dr Emily O’Conor President IAEM to the Oireachtas
Dr Emily O’Conor, President IAEM, addressed the Oireachtas on Wednesday 17 January 2018 in response to a request to IAEM to describe the experience of... Read More
IAEM Annual Scientific Meeting
The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine’s Annual Scientific Meeting will be held on the 19th & 20th October 2017 in the Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill.... Read More
VTE Dublin 2017 conference
VTE Dublin 2017 will host its annual international conference on the diagnosis and management of venous thromboembolic disease VTE Point of Care ultrasound workshop... Read More
#DasSMACC in Berlin
Following the roaring success of SMACCDUB in Dublin last year, #DasSMACC will be held in Berlin’s Tempodrome from June 26th to June 29th 2017 ... Read More
Dr Fergal Hickey – HSE holds the solution to ED crowding
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... Read More
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 has passed almost twice the figure that... Read More
IAEM launches Annual Scientific Meeting 2016
Registration for the IAEM Annual Scientific Meeting 2016 is now live Location Clontarf Castle Hotel, Dublin Date Thursday 20th October & Friday 21st October 2016 See... Read More
Emergency Department crowding 2016
Dr Fergal Hickey, Communications Officer for the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine, explains the full extent of patient crowding in Irish Emergency Departments for the... Read More
ED crowding crisis hits new Summer high
As 359 patients languish on trolleys and wards without access to an acute hospital bed, Dr Fergal Hickey, Communications Officer IAEM, discusses the issue with... Read More
IAEM Annual Scientific Meeting 2016
The IAEM Annual Scientific Meeting 2016 will be held in Clontarf Castle Hotel, Dublin on Thursday 20th October and Friday 21st October 2016. The conference... Read More
Emergency Department Dementia Care Pathway
It is well established that the early signs of dementia are not infrequently missed when a patient presents to hospital with an acute medical presentation.... Read More
Emergency Department ‘Hitlist’ Dr Fergal Hickey reveals the facts
On 10th July 2016 a front-page report in the Sunday Business Post appeared under the heading ‘A&E Hitlist’ The article, based on a leaked Department... Read More
VTE Dublin 2016
Following the success of VTE 2015, the Mater Hospital ED group has asked global experts in venous thromboembolism to speak at VTE Dublin 2016 on September... Read More
Mr Mark Doyle discusses patients that leave Irish Emergency Departments
IAEM President, Mr Mark Doyle, responds to the report carried in the Irish Independent that in 2015 48,000 patients had left Ireland’s Emergency Departments before... Read More
Worsening Emergency Department crisis continues
Dr Fergal Hickey, IAEM Communications Officer, speaks on RTE Six One News on Wednesday 4th April as 522 patients wait on ED trolleys for admission
Dr Fergal Hickey – worsening ED crowding
As new figures show 522 patients awaiting hospital admission for whom there isn’t a hospital bed and as the inability to form a stable government... Read More
Dr Fergal Hickey – Healthcare & homelessness after GE16
Following the general election which saw the public rate healthcare and homelessness as two of the electorate’s most important concerns, Dr Fergal Hickey, Communications Officer,... Read More
Dr John O’ Donnell talks about ED crowding in Galway University Hospital
As INMO Emergency Department nurses at St Vincent’s University Hospital stage another protest against persistent ED crowding and understaffing in their ED, Mary Wilson speaks... Read More
Dr Fergal Hickey discusses ED crowding on RTE Drivetime
As Dublin’s Mater Hospital cancels elective surgery in the face of large numbers of in-patient boarders in its Emergency Department, the son of a patient... Read More
Dr Fergal Hickey on Workplace Relations Commission findings
IAEM Communications Officer, Dr Fergal Hickey, responds to the news that agreement is reached at the Workplace Relations Commission between Emergency Department Nurses represented by... Read More
Dr Peader Gilligan discusses ED crowding in Beaumont Hospital
Following calls by the INMO for the Emergency Department of Beaumont Hospital to go off call following a period of severe crowding with admitted hospital... Read More
Dr Fergal Hickey discusses ED crowding and ED nurses strike
In the face of severe Emergency Department crowding over the early days of January 2016 and an impending series of two-hour work stoppages by ED... Read More
Dr Jim Gray on ED crowding
Dr James Gray, Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Tallaght Hospital discusses the implications of the directive by the HSE on ED Crowding requiring specified actions... Read More
Mr John O’Donnell interview following deferral of ED Nurses Industrial Action
In the wake of the tentative agreement between the INMO and the HSE which resulted in the deferral of the Industrial Action by Emergency Department... Read More
Mr John O’Donnell Consultant in EM, Galway University Hospital about Galway Hospital ED
Interview with Mr John O’Donnell, Consultant in EM, Galway University Hospital on 9th December 2015, following the revelation that there were 30 in-patient boarders on... Read More
Mr James Binchy on Newstalk Breakfast about Galway Hospital ED
Mr James Binchy, Emergency Medicine Consultant in Galway University Hospital, speaks with Newstalk Breakfast on 3rd December 2015 following the Taoiseach’s admission in the Dail... Read More
Mr Fergal Hickey explains the consequences of ED crowding on RTE’s Liveline programme
Mr Fergal Hickey, IAEM Communications Officer, was part of a discussion on RTE’s Joe Duffy Liveline radio programme which followed a family explaining their experience... Read More
ED crowding is an ongoing problem
Ongoing Emergency Department crowding may force ED staff to consider a ballot for industrial action. This news item was featured on TV3 17:30 new on... Read More
Mr Fergal Hickey about the Tallaght Hospital ED trolley crisis
Mr Fergal Hickey, IAEM Communications Officer, speaks with RTE News at One on Friday November 6th about the ongoing Tallaght Hospital ED trolley crisis.
A further interview with Dr James Gray on RTE’s Today with Sean O’Rourke
Dr James Gray provides a further report on RTE’s Today with Sean O’Rourke concerning the ongoing controversy about the 91 year old man who remained... Read More
Dr James Gray: Letter from Dr Gray to his CEO regarding ED Crowding
The case of a 91 year old man who had remained on a trolley in the internal corridor of the Emergency Department of Tallaght Hospital... Read More
Mr Fergal Hickey speaks with RTE’s Drivetime regarding Beaumont Hospital’s ED crowding
Mr Fergal Hickey, IAEM Communications Officer, speaks with RTE’s Drivetime on Friday 23rd October following Beaumont going off call the previous night because of the... Read More
Important new study published by Irish EM research group
In a recently published randomised controlled trial, Dr John Cronin, Dr Ronan O’Sullivan and the UCD Research Centre compared the use of dexamethasone and prednisolone... Read More
Mr Fergal Hickey discusses the revelation that a 91 year old man spent 29 hours on a trolley in the corridor of the Emergency Department of Tallaght Hospital
Mr Fergal Hickey, Communications Officer, discusses the revelation that a 91 year old man spent 29 hours on a trolley in the corridor of the... Read More
Mr Mark Doyle: doctors share the same frustrations as nurses over patient suffering due to overcrowding
IAEM President, Mr Mark Doyle says doctors share the same frustrations as nurses when they see patients suffering because of overcrowding. Breakfast: Newstalk Wednesday 4th... Read More
Dr James Gray: Discusses a letter he sent to the Tallaght Hospital CEO regarding a case of ED crowding
The case of a 91 year old man who had remained on a trolley in the internal corridor of the Emergency Department of Tallaght Hospital... Read More
Dr Fergal Hickey: Health Minister says “Heads Could Roll If Trolley Crisis Is Not Addressed Soon”
Newstalk interview with Mr Fergal Hickey in response to Minister Leo Varadkar’s intention to remediate the trolley problem and the decision by Tony O’Brien, Director General... Read More
Mr Fergal Hickey: response to Minister Varadkar’s intention to remediate the trolley problem
Morning Ireland interview with Mr Fergal Hickey in response to Minister Leo Varadkar’s intention to remediate the trolley problem and the decision by Tony O’Brien, Director... Read More
Mr Fergal Hickey: State of the health service in Ireland
IAEM Communications Officer, Mr Fergal Hickey and Mr Michael O’Keeffe, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Children’s University Hospital, Temple St. discuss the state of the health service on... Read More
Mr Fergal Hickey: Emergency Department Taskforce Implementation Group Meeting
Mr Fergal Hickey, spokesperson for IAEM, speaks on Morning Ireland on September 14th 2015 about the worsening ED crowding problem in light of today’s meeting... Read More
Dr Fergal Hickey: Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise
Dr Fergal Hickey, Consultant, and Communications Officer, Irish Association for Emergency Medicine, talks about the proposal to end full-scale emergency services at the Midlands Regional... Read More
Creating leadership resilience in emergency care. Getting from ‘good’ to ‘great’!
The Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management in conjunction with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine invite you to join this unique, inaugural meeting on... Read More
SMACC Dublin 2016
SMACC is a high impact Critical Care academic meeting fused with cutting edge social media to deliver innovation with education. SMACC, www.smacc.net.au, is the most exciting... Read More
Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Conference Dublin 2015
The Mater Hospital ED group has collected the world’s top experts in venous thromboembolism to speak at VTE Dublin 2015. The programme is designed to... Read More
Annual Scientific Meeting Cork 2015
The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine proudly presents Annual Scientific Meeting Cork 2015 The Premiere Emergency Medicine Event of the Year in collaboration with the Emergency... Read More
Prof. Patrick Plunkett, Medical Director, St James’s Hospital talks on trolley crisis
Panel includes Professor Patrick Plunkett, Medical Director, St James’s Hospital, Aodhan O’Riordain Labour Party Minister with Responsibility for New Communities, Culture & Equality, Roisin Shortall,... Read More
Dr. Mark Doyle discusses ED overcrouding in Waterford University Hospital
Dr. Mark Doyle, President of the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine and a consultant at Waterford University Hospital, discusses the situation in the Emergency Department in... Read More
Dr Fergal Hickey: Issues contributing to trolley numbers
Dr Fergal Hickey, Consultant, and Communications Officer, Irish Association for Emergency Medicine, says the problem of overcrowding will be compounded by the changeover in junior... Read More
Dr Fergal Hickey: Emergency department overcrowding
Dr Fergal Hickey, Emergency Medicine Consultant at Sligo Regional Hospital, speaks to Michael O’Regan about the crisis in our country’s emergency departments. The Pat Kenny... Read More
Dr Fergal Hickey: Forum to look at emergency department overcrowding
Dr Fergal Hickey, a senior emergency consultant at Sligo Regional Hospital, questions the need for a new forum to look at emergency department overcrowding
Doctor shortages in A&E are “dangerous”
Dr. Chris Luke, A&E consultant in emergency medicine at Cork University Hospital and Mercy Hospital Cork, outlined the issues facing A&Es with a shortage of... Read More
Dr Mark Doyle warns over staffing levels in Emergency Departments
Mark Doyle, President of the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine, warning over staffing levels in Emergency Departments. RTÉ Radio 1 “News At One” Monday 9... Read More
Dr Fergal Hickey: Emergency Wards Chaos
Dr Fergal Hickey, a senior emergency consultant at Sligo Regional Hospital, has warned that the increasing numbers of patients infected with influenza being admitted to... Read More
Dr Chris Luke: Emergency Department Violent Attacks
Emergency departments across the country are well used to dealing with victims of violence and excessive drinking but according to Dr Chris Luke, an emergency medicine... Read More
IAEM Annual Scientific Meeting 2013
IAEM Annual Scientific Meeting 2013 The 2013 Annual Scientific Meeting and AGM will take place in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal and will run from Thursday 17th... Read More
New clinical guidelines on the Emergency Management of Injuries
New clinical guidelines on the Emergency Management of Injuries including needlestick and sharps injuries, sexual exposure and human bites have been developed and are available... Read More
Letterkenny ED Opening
The Minister for Health, Dr. James Reilly, TD officially opened the new Emergency Department at Letterkenny General Hospital in Co. Donegal on Friday 22 March... Read More
MMUH ED Opening
The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital’s new Emergency Department opened for patients on Sunday 17th February 2013. The new ED boasts cutting-edge facilities and state-of-the-art medical... Read More