Standards & Documents
On this page, you will find numerous documents relating to ICM in Ireland. The documents are stored in chronological order and can be searched using searchwords and/or date of publication. For documents relating to paediatric intensive care, including Standards for ICM in Ireland, please visit the relevant paediatric section of this website.
The Faculty and the ICSI have maintained an ongoing commitment to developing ICUs and ICM in Ireland and it proposed and strongly supported the commissioning of the ‘Prospectus study’ by the HSE. This report Towards Excellence in Critical Care – Reveiw of Adult Critical Care Services in the Republic of Ireland (2009) and its outline of the national priorities for ICM is strongly endorsed by the JFICMI and it also endorses the role to the HSE’s National Critical Care Programme (NCCP) in its endeavours to implement its recommendations.
Minimum Standards
Tuesday, 2 June, 2015
- National Standards for Adult Critical Services (2019)
- JFICMI ICSI Minimum Standards
Guidelines for Critically Ill Woman in Obstetrics
Wednesday, 10 June, 2015
- Guidelines for Critically Ill Woman in Obstetrics
CCP Model of Care for Adult Critical Care
Wednesday, 10 June, 2015
The Joint Faculty strongly supports the Model of Care from the HSE Critical Care Program.
- CCP Model of Care for Adult Critical Care (pdf)
- Towards Excellence in Critical Care: Prospectus 2009
ICSI Guidelines on Brainstem Death and Management of the Organ Donor
Wednesday, 10 June, 2015
- ICSI Guidelines on Brainstem Death and Management of the Organ Donor (pdf)
Donation after Circulatory Death Guidelines
Monday, 31 July, 2017
Recently approved ICSI guidelines governing the process of DCD DCD ICSI Guideline
- Document Download
Education, Training and Curriculum
Monday, 11 December, 2017
- Higher Specialist Training in Intensive Care Medicine
- Curriculum and Minimum Standards Requirements
Echocardiography
Monday, 11 December, 2017
Training in cardiac ECHO has become a core component of ICU training, it’s inclusion as one of the competencies recognised by CoBaTRice emphasises this point. The Joint Faculty has been led and guided by experts such →
- Basic Critical Care ECHO
- ECHO Log Book
Certification and Accreditation
Monday, 11 December, 2017
These resources are currently being updated to 2019 versions.
- Periodic Visitation Record PDF
- Periodic Visitation Record .doc format
National Standards for Paediatric Critical Care Medicine
Thursday, 14 February, 2019
PCCM National Standards
- PCCM National Standards