Emergency Medicine

Description:

The Mater Hospital is Ireland’s most advanced specialist centre and is the largest university teaching hospital in the country. It provides dedicated national tertiary services for trauma, spinal surgery, cardiothoracic surgery including heart and lung transplant and is home to Ireland’s most advanced intensive care unit.

The Mater Hospital ED has an annual attendance of more than 85,000 patients each year. It is recognised as the busiest adult ED in Ireland with the most diverse, high acuity and challenging patient cohort in the country. It has the most well-developed and established educational training programme in emergency and critical care with daily consultant-led training in ultrasound, simulation training, trauma and airway management and resuscitative procedures.