ICM Grand Rounds are weekly lectures delivered by Consultants in Intensive Care Medicine, by visiting experts and thought leaders in the field, and by mentored Intensive Care Medicine fellows.
ICM Grand Rounds are designed to facilitate up-to-date knowledge dissemination and discussion regarding clinical issues in Intensive Care Medicine. The format each week will consist of a 25 minute lecture followed with 5 minutes for questions/discussion, the second item will be a 10 minutes challenging case followed by 10 minutes presentation of evidence/guidelines pertaining to the case with discussion.
The events are recorded and will appear here in due course.
2025
6th February 2025 – Personalised Ventilatory Support
Hospital – Galway University Hospital
Presenter – Prof John Laffey – Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
23rd January 2025 – EEG in Intensive Care
Hospital – Beaumont Hospital
Presenter – Dr Pierce Geoghegan – Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
2024
19th December 2024 – Fulminant Liver Failure
Hospital – St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin
Presenter – Dr Jennifer Mcgrath, Intensive Care Fellow, Dr Andrea Haren, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
10th October 2024 – Exotoxins in ICU
Hospital – Cork University Hospital
Presenter – Dr JR Sheehan – Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
29th September 2024 – Assisted Decision Making in Critical Care
Hospital – University Hospital Limerick
Presenter -Dr Jonathan Roddy, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia
29th August 2024 – Cardiac Masses in Transthoracic Echo
Hospital – Tallaght University Hospital
Presenter – Dr Maria Boylan, SAT 4 Anaesthesia Trainee. Dr Aoife Doolan, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia
20th June 2024 – Optimising Intensive Care Staff Recruitment and Retention: Establishing an Evidence-Based Consensus on New ICU Design and Layout
Hospital – Critical Care Programme
Presenters – Dr Ian Kelly, SAT7, Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin & Dr Thomas Walsh, SAT4, The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street
6th June 2024 – Ondine’s Curse: Respiratory Drive and Mechanical Ventilation
Hospital – University Hospital Galway
Presenters – Dr Alison Fahey SpR Anaesthesia, Dr John Bates Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine
9th May 2024 – GBS in ICU
Hospital – St Vincent’s University Hospital
Presenters – Dr Hugh O’Reilly, Dr Sean Croughan & Dr Eoin Young, Fellows in ICM
11th April 2024 – Motor Neurone Disease in ICU
Hospital – St James Hospital
Presenters – Dr Ciara Hayden, Fellow in ICM. Dr Enda O’Connor, Consultant in ICM
14th March 2024 – Pulmonary Hypertension in the ICU
Hospital – Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Presenters – Dr Andy Neill, Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine
25th January 2024 – postpartum autoimmune encephalitis
Hospital – St Vincent’s University Hospital
Presenters – Dr Laura Slattery, Advanced Clinical Fellow in ICM,
11th January 2024 – NORSE an overview
Hospital – Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast
Presenters – Dr Rob MacSweeney, Consultant Intensivist, Dr Emma Wilson, ST8 Anaesthetics and Intensive Care
2023
7th December 2023 – Community Acquired Pneumonia
Hospital – St James Hospital
Presenters – Prof Ignacio Martin-Loeches
23rd November 2023 – Expanded Organ Donor Criteria
Hospital – Cork University Hospital
Presenters – Dr Annlin Bejoy Philip, Dr Brian O’Brien.
26th October 2023 – SGLT-2 in ICU
Hospital – Galway University Hospital
Presenter – Dr Bairbre McNicholas. Consultant Intensivist and Nephrologist.
12th October 2023 – Sodium Disorders in ICU
Hospital – Beaumont
Presenter – Professor Mark Sherlock. Consultant Endocrinologist.
28th September 2023 – Weaning in high spinal cord injury
Hospital – Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
Presenter – Dr Mairead Hayes, Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist
14th September 2023 – Staph Aureus Bacteraemia
Hospital – University Hospital Limerick
Presenters – Dr Laura Kennedy, Dr Jane O’Sullivan
31st August 2023 – Cardiac Tamponade
Hospital – Tallaght University Hospital
Presenters – Dr Amr Mohammed, Consutlant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Dr Sean Walsh, Fellow in Intensive Care Medicine
18th May 2023 – Management of patients with rib fractures in Intensive Care
Hospital – St Vincents University Hospital
Presenters – Dr Leeza Little, Advanced fellow in Intensive Care Medicine Dr Molly Featherstone, Intern in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia
4th May 2023 – The evolution of deceased organ donation in NI – a 15 year experience
Hospital – Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
Dr Dominic Trainor – Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
Dr Graham McCracken – Senior Registrar in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
6th April 2023 – Updates in cardiac arrest treatment
Hospital – St James Hospital
Presenters – Dr Sandra Chiaka Amasike, Intensive Care and Anaesthesia Registrar. Dr Gábor Zilahi, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia
23rd Mar 2023 – Seizures in Intensive Care
Hospital – Beaumont Hospital
Presenter – Dr Caroline Larkin, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Special Guest Lecture: Neuromonitoring for TBI
Prof Peter Hutchinson, University of Cambridge, UK
February 23rd – Access to care for the elderly person
Hospital: Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Presenters: Dr Adina Nesa, Dr Brian Marsh
March 9th – Acute on Chronic Liver Faulure
Hospital: Beaumont
Presenters: Prof John Ryan, Dr Barry Singleton
2022
October 13th – Management of moderate-severe TBI.
Hospital: Beaumont
Presenters: Prof Ger Curley, Dr Stephen Murphy
October 20th – Role of VA ECMO
Hospital: Mater
Presenters: Dr Aisling McMahon, Dr Kate O’Donnell
October 27th – The role of strain imaging with echo
Hospital: Galway University Hospital
Presenters: Dr Peter Moran, Dr Rob Turner
November 3rd – Graft vs Host Disease
Hospital: St James
Presenters: Dr Enda O’Connor, Dr Dearbhla Kelly
November 10th – Graft vs Host Disease
Hospital: Cork University Hospital
Presenters: Dr John Mcnamara, Dr Sean Croughan
November 17th – Pelvic Trauma
Hospital: Tallaght University Hospital
Presenters: Dr Yvelynne Kelly, Dr Sarah Ryan
November 24th – Neuroprognostication after cardiac arrest
Hospital: St Vincents University Hospital
Presenters: Dr Donal Ryan, Dr Fiona Roberts
December 1st – ARDS
Hospital: Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
Presenters: Prof Danny McAuley, Dr Mairead Murnin
December 8th – APRV
Hospital: University Hospital Limerick
Presenters: Dr Sinead O’Brien Dr Areebah Hassan, Dr Catherine Nix