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On behalf of the Sustainability Committee, we are pleased to announce that the very first Green Anaesthesia Week will be held from the 13th – 16th September 2021. The Green Anaesthesia Week will be delivered virtually through a set of emails that will include a whole host of information and links to pre-recorded content daily. Each day has its own theme, please see them below. Minimizing Monday TIVA Tuesday No Waste Wednesday Town Hall Thursday Please note, all lectures will be recorded and are available to view on-demand. 5 CPD points approved for all days. The…

The 20th North-West Obstetric Anaesthesia Forum is to be held virtually on the 7th July 2021, 13:00 – 17:00 (UK, BST). The faculty is not only from North West of England but from Canada and California too. Registrations have opened on the Periopman website and will be limited to 200 delegates only. Please see the programme for further details or visit the following website: https://www.periopman.co.uk/events/nw-oa-forum-21/

“I regard this discovery as one of the most important of this century. It will rank with vaccination, and other of the great benefits that medical science has bestowed on man.” So wrote John MacDonnell, surgeon to the Richmond Hospital, Dublin after the administration of the first general anaesthetic in Ireland on 1 January 1847, when he successfully amputated the arm of the 18-year-old Mary Kane without her experiencing any pain. Over the next 150 years, anaesthesia was to evolve from an apprentice-based craft to…

If you registered for the COA Annual Congress 2021 using an email account that has been affected by the HSE cyber-attack, please email info@coa.ie as soon as possible to ensure you receive all communications from the college.

We are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the CAI Medical Essay Competition is Conor Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Year 3). The runners up are Robert Brodigan (RCSI, Year 4) and Isabelle Matthew (UCD, Year 4). To access and read the winning essays on the topic of ‘Safety while we watch – What should a Patient Safety Culture in Anaesthesiology look like?’ please click below: Conor Farrell – Essay [pdf] Robert Brodigan – Essay [pdf] Isabelle Matthew – Essay [pdf] The standard of…

Dear Colleagues,   The Irish Society of Regional Anaesthesia (ISRA) is proud to provide a grant with the aim of supporting regional anaesthesia research in Ireland.    The annual ISRA grant of €1,000 is open to all ISRA members and can be awarded for a variety of purposes including (but not limited to) research, travel expenses to present research and open access publishing fees.   Application deadline: 10th May 2021 at 17.00 Decision: May 2021   The grant should be used for direct costs such as equipment, materials, travel costs, publishing fees etc.    In order for your work to be eligible for…