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Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine Anaesthesia is a large specialty – there are around 350 Consultant Anaesthetists in Ireland; approximately one sixth of the total consultant body, and the second largest single specialty following Psychiatry. The core activity is provision of anaesthesia for surgery. This involves an enormous variety of surgical procedures on all parts of the body, across all ages and in patients with every conceivable co-existing disease. Every anaesthetic is different because every patient is different. The challenge of our specialty is…