Don't trust ChatGPT Health – or likely any general health LLM – to give you medical advice in the context of a serious acute illness. Patient triage is clearly outside its functional requirements.
#medsky
www.evidencetriage.com/p/the-chatgp...
Teachers have warned AI is hampering students’ ability to learn—but most of them are using it anyway.
Do you have a completed piece of original research?
Submit it to #ICCH2026 in the form of an oral or poster presentation. If your research or project isn’t quite finished, have a look at submitting under our Work In Progress category 🔗 fitwise.eventsair.com/icch2026/eve...
#EACH
Kayla Murphy presents “Probing for Change,” a project supporting greener and more sustainable emergency care by limiting unnecessary use of disposable equipment at CHI Crumlin.
#NOCA2026
Welcome to NOCA 2026!
Collette Tully, Executive Director of NOCA, welcomes 500+ attendees to NOCA’s Annual Conference: From Audit to Action, here in the @rcsi.bsky.social, opening a day focused on quality improvement through audit and action.
Follow #NOCA2026 for updates!
@hselive.bsky.social
Opening Address from Jennifer Murnane O’Connor TD, Minister of State for Public Health, highlighting the role of clinical audit, wellbeing and national strategies in improving healthcare.
"You are never a burden on the HSE, if you feel like there is something wrong, you can rely on us."
#NOCA2026
Louise Brent, NOCA Head of Audit Management, and Michael Madigan, PPI Representative, present the NOCA Impact Report 2026, showing how audit drives measurable improvements in patient care.
"At NOCA, PPI is not just a checkbox, its a way of putting patients at the centre of their work"
#NOCA2026
Tomorrow: NOCA Annual Conference 2026!
Theme: “From Audit to Action: A Culture of Improvement” highlighting how audit can drive real impact.
Thanks to our sponsors: GS1 Ireland, DMF Systems & NEC Software Solutions 🙏
See you all tomorrow!
Full programme: a.storyblok.com/f/265949/x/d...
Management of the febrile infant has changed quite a bit. @spiroskara.bsky.social and I cover the @jama.com paper from Drs. Burstein and Kuppermann. You may no longer need to LP infants <28 days if they meet @pecarn.bsky.social low risk criteria! buff.ly/3ngdS5R #PedSky #PedsEM #FOAMed #MedSky
Thats the question! The answer goes beyond just numbers & into the consequences. What would a court of law judge? Would a professional be supported in making the evidence based decision that gave a bad outcome? it probably influences certain clinicians’ actions more than the evidence. . . . .
The children’s flu vaccine is a quick, simple nasal spray. Book an appointment with your GP or participating pharmacy. It is also offered through some primary schools.
www2.hse.ie/conditions/f...
Join us Wed 5th Nov at 10am for the launch webinar for the Irish National Audit of Stroke National Report 2024 & Organisational Audit 2025.
Hear key findings from Prof Joe Harbison, a patient story “From Stroke to Strength” and updates on the National Stroke Strategy.
🔗 www.noca.ie/news-events/...
That was all the more satisfying because we beat Leinster in the exact way that they tend to lose games. Give them no defensive energy, make them attack, kick at a very high volume and then defend like you hate them.
Thats brilliant 🤣
Medical students and residents learn formulaic ways of conducting consultations. But in reality these can often develop in multiple directions, and be more like freeform jazz than line dancing. How do we teach this?
My latest "Talking Point" @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...
"Yeah, I'm not doing that"
- Me
National Audit of Hospital Mortality National Report 2022–2023. The report shows progress in reducing in-hospital deaths for heart attack, stroke, and pneumonia, while COPD rates have stabilised. For the first time, inequalities in hospital outcomes were also explored. www.noca.ie/documents/na...
Which is better? Lactated Ringer’s solution or normal saline?
The latest video in our partnership with @glaucomflecken.bsky.social summarizes the FLUID trial. 👉 nej.md/DrG26
#MedSky #MedEd #Surgery
Huge congratulations. 🙌 well done
🚀📷 Thrilled to announce our latest research on chest drain complications in the ED is officially published in the
@IMJ_IRL
!! 📄 imj.ie/prevalence-o... huge shoutout to the incredible team that made this happen! #MedicalResearch #EmergencyMedicine
see how it all works
Paediatric Sepsis Priority Setting Partnership 🤝: A James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership asking
👉 What sepsis research questions matter most to families, carers, and frontline professionals?
Survey 1 is now live🔗 Take the survey www.passport-platform.org/research-pri...
It's #worldsepsisday
Please consider this Sepsis Research Priority Survey with the @LindAlliance
Led by the sepsis expert @Dr_Elliot_Long as part of the PASSPORT study.
www.passport-platform.org
On #WorldSepsisDay highlighting editorial (with @apsmunro.bsky.social )
"Time for paediatrics to screen out sepsis “screening”
www.bmj.com/content/381/...
(For example screening, by definition, requires patient to be asymptomatic. But many patients receiving a “sepsis screen” are symptomatic)
