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This week’s Irish Association for Emergency Medicine’s 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting programme was due to have a particular focus on the care of the older patient.

It is likely that there will be a Tribunal of Inquiry at some future point into how ill, elderly and infirm patients are allowed to die unnecessarily for the want of necessary investment, the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has suggested.

There will be a particular focus on the care of older patients, who now attend emergency departments (EDs) in greater numbers and require specific facilities and approaches, at the IAEM annual meeting next month.

Approximately one in every 25 patients attending a large emergency department (ED) in Dublin met the criteria for uncomplicated sepsis, according to new research published in the Irish Medical Journal.

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has demanded that all emergency departments (EDs) taking 24/7 undifferentiated emergencies should have on-call cover by consultants in emergency medicine (EM), “or else they should stop taking 24/7 undifferentiated emergencies”.

The National Ambulance Patient Handover Protocol (IMIST-AMBO) will be rolled out across all 29 emergency departments (EDs) in the country over the next few months.

A first-of-its-kind Ethiopian study involving an Irish consultant in emergency medicine has won a gold medal from the Ethiopian Medical Society.

Ireland is overdue a major emergency crisis such as a plane crash, but is not in a position to cope as most acute hospitals are operating at a 110 per cent occupancy rate, a leading Emergency Medicine (EM) consultant has warned.

GPs are seeking greater involvement in hospitals’ boards and emergency departments (EDs), with two motions on the issue proposed by the Mayo GP Branch and passed by attendees at the IMO AGM in Sligo.

The Irish Medical Council (IMC) formally evaluated programmes of specialist training in Emergency Medicine, and in Sports and Exercise Medicine in December for possible accreditation, with the results of both processes expected in due course, IMT reports.