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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
...when he was playing basketball one day he fell and cut himself, resulting in a very slight scrape on his arm. Overnight he spiked a fever. We brought him to his doctor who said it was a gastric flu, but because he needed some fluids she sent him to one of the top hospitals in New York. We took him to the emergency department there, where staff concurred with her that it was a gastric...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: ..., some of the sepsis strategies I looked at had things, especially for children, around ensuring vaccine roll-outs were effective and comprehensive. That sometimes infections such as pneumonia, flu or meningitis were underlying issues was part of the strategy and vaccine roll-outs were part of the sepsis story. I was interested to see that, in his opening statement, Dr. Henry referred to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Dr. Ciara Martin: There is no vaccine for sepsis but we know that Covid, flu and other illnesses do contribute to the environment where sepsis can take hold of a patient. The free flu vaccine uptake in children was low last year and we identified that as a possible factor, so this year our public health doctors are in the schools. They are going into senior infants' classes in school to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: ...from training in sepsis. I notice that in other jurisdictions, there is a possibility for sepsis certification as part of postgraduate education for pharmacists. If a small child presents with flu-like symptoms, a pharmacist would be able to say that it is not flu and the child should be brought to the emergency department immediately. Are we doing this or looking at it in Ireland?