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Full Programme – Saturday 8th November 2025

This year’s conference promises an array of educational opportunities including national and international speakers, point of care ultrasound workshops and Kate Flynn and poster presentations. Additional opportunities include the Foundations of Echocardiography course in Cork on Friday November 7th

Kate Flynn Competition

The Kate Flynn Medal 2025 will be awarded at the conference. As per usual Kate Flynn criteria, applications are invited for submission of any presentations of interesting cases or case series related to Intensive Care Medicine. Shortlisted applicants will be asked to deliver an oral presentation of no more than 7 minutes duration.

Guidelines for Kate Flynn Abstract Submission:

The presenter should submit an abstract as a word document—Max 250 words and structured as background, case presentation, and conclusion.

Abstracts may include relevant case reports or case series. Cases should be original, including why the case should be reported, and the essential implications or message for the Intensive Care Community. Please indicate on the abstract submission if it is for the Kate Flynn prize or the poster prize.

Please note the closing date for submissions of abstracts is Friday October 10th 2025.

Submissions to icsi@coa.ie

The conference will be joined in person and virtually by highly esteemed international physicians, researchers and clinicians.

Confirmed renowned national and international speakers are as follows:

• Ms. Kate Tantam, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust & #RehabLegend

• Prof Margaret Herridge, University of Toronto & University Health Network, Toronto

• Dr. Julie Highfield, UK Intensive Care Society & Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

• Dr. Peter Nydahl, University Medical Centre Schleswig Holstein

• Prof. Sandra Kane-Gill, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy

• Prof. Joanne McPeak, University of Cambridge & Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Dr. John Sheehan, The Hermitage Clinic & The Blackrock Clinic.

Please note, this is a blended conference. Speakers will be presenting remotely or in person.

For information on registration, please use the following link.

To view the programme, please click use the following link.

A new Basic Course is taking place in Cork University Hospital on 4th & 5th June 2026

If you would like to apply click here 

The BASIC course is a short course, held over 2 days, which covers essential and fundamental aspects of Intensive Care and is held twice a year. The course is designed as an introduction to Intensive Care for doctors coming to work in the ICU for the first time but is also suitable proved popular with senior ICU nurses. The course consists of course manual, brief clinically-based lectures, skill stations, e-learning and pre- and post-course tests. The course works on a cascading model with local instructors delivering the content after appropriate training.

All queries should be forwarded to icsi@coa.ie. 

As per usual Kate Flynn criteria, applications are invited for submission of any presentations of interesting cases or case series related to Intensive Care Medicine.

This meeting will take place in the lecture theatre at the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland, 22 Merrion Square North, Dublin 2.

Shortlisted applicants will be asked to deliver a presentation of 6 to 8 minutes duration.

Guidelines for Abstract Submission:

The presenter should submit an abstract as a word document—Max 250 words and structured as background, case presentation, and conclusion.

Abstracts may include relevant case reports or case series. Cases should be original, including why the case should be reported, and the essential implications or message for the Intensive Care Community.

Please note the closing date for submissions of abstracts is Sunday 18^th of September.

Submissions to icsi@coa.ie

This meeting is free to attend and will cover the covid-19 pandemic thus far with a forward looking approach to healthcare in the future. The meeting will follow on from the ICU 4 U commemorative charity cycle where teams from around the country will cycle to Dublin to raise money for charities supporting people affected by the COVID 19 crisis.

The meeting will include a Kate Flynn Presentation Prize, Scientific Session and a Public Session.

This will feature a number of key speakers who will address issues of interest to clinicians and the public. This will be a virtual meeting and there will be a facility to submit questions to the speakers via the moderator.

Those wishing to participate in this sessions will have the opportunity to pre-register for the conference, later this week.

Webinar Registration

Registration for all sessions is free. To attend please use the follow links to register for each session:

Clinical Session

Public Session

Programme viewable below or downloadable

Frontline workers will remember lives lost to Covid-19 and aim to raise €150k for those impacted by the pandemic at ICU4U2 memorial event

Frontline workers throughout the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland will cycle to the Memorial Gardens at Islandbridge Dublin this September to remember all those who have lost their lives to Covid-19 and to raise €150,000 for those impacted by the secondary challenges of the pandemic.

The ICU4U2 event will see small teams of ICU doctors, nurses, paramedics, ambulance drivers, other healthcare staff plus some gardai depart from each of the six nationwide University Hospitals in Cork, Belfast, Galway, Limerick, Sligo and Waterford on 2-3 September.  They will pass through as many community hospitals as possible en route to Dublin, collecting white roses along the way to represent lives lost to the virus.  Then over 7000 white roses will be displayed at the gardens on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th September representing each life lost in Ireland to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The charities to benefit are:

• ALONE (a charity that helps our more vulnerable Elderly population)
• AWARE (a charity that supports people with Mental Health problems)
• Breakthrough Cancer Research (a charity that supports improvements in the care of cancer patients)
• Aware NI (supports people with Mental Health problems in Northern Ireland)

The event takes place as follows:

Date: 2nd & 3rd of September
Where: Teams of cyclist would leave from their hospitals in Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Galway, Sligo and Belfast and cycle to Island Bridge in Dublin. The cycle will be over two days from Southern cities with an overnight stops. Northern Irish period would be over 1-day leaving from Belfast.

There will be Six cycling options.

All routes will be marshalled with backup support, and refreshment stops provided.

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For further information please click here.

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To register for the ICU4U2 cycle please follow the link below. Please note confirmation email may appear in your Junk/Spam mail. 

ICU 4 U2 Registration – ICSI (intensivecare.ie)

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See www.icu4u.ie to donate.

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