Dr Dea Scéal. Emergency Medicine Doctor. @RcollEM Doctoral Fellow. PhD Candidate @QUBelfast @fido_study. @ITERN_ Outgoing Lead.
Joined October 2015
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👋 Welcome back to #Scanuary – Day 21!
I am C-3POcus, the emergency department ultrasound machine that never sleeps 🤖📟
I’ll continue taking you through my ED shift, rolling from patient to patient as the day unfolds.
Today, we’re diving into something a little different…
🦵 The deep veins.
Compression, clots, and time-critical diagnosis—let’s get scanning.
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📺🩺 #ThePitt S2E1 gives a nod to the PECARN febrile infant rule—great use of evidence-based tools in a tough situation. 👏 Medicine keeps moving, though.
There’s new data hot off the press 👇
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
#PECARN #ThePitt #EmergencyMedicine #Pediatrics #JAMANetwork
@nkuppermann @HBO
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Registration open for our Dublin CME courses April 27-May 1, 2026 - JOIN US for Neuro Emergencies, ED Quality Improvement and Emergency Medicine Education Workshops!
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The ED is where policy meets reality:
No access to primary care → med refills in the ED
No mental health funding → crises in the ED
No addiction services → overdoses in the ED
We don’t just see patients. We see policy failures.
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Nasal high-flow O2 during apnoea on hypoxaemia & intubation success in pediatric emergency & ICU settings. @DennisRenMD #EBM #FOAMed
thesgem.com/2025/10/sgem487-…
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The @RCollEM Autumn Research Grant Call has now been launched with a deadline of 8am on Monday 22nd September 2025. Information for potential applicants can be found here rcem.ac.uk/research-awards-a…
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🇮🇪 Big News for Tactical Medicine in Ireland! 🇮🇪
We're thrilled to announce that following the recent #RCS Accreditation of our Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) Course, we had the immense privilege of delivering it to members of the @AmbulanceNAS NAS Operational Support Incident Response Team (IRT) and @GardaTraffic An Garda Síochána Specialist Tactical Operations Command (STOC)!
This multi-disciplinary, multi-agency training truly tested participants, requiring peak physical and mental fitness and the ability to make time-critical decisions across all three phases of care. It's not for the faint-hearted!
A huge thank you to NAS and Garda for the warm welcome as we collaborate towards developing #TacMed in Ireland.
But wait, there's more! We're also delighted to share that our first TAG Accredited Centre in Ireland is now open! This means our extensive suite of courses is now exclusively available right here on the Emerald Isle. ☘️
#TAG #ATACC #NAS #IRT #GARDA #STOC #TECC #CTECC #RCS #TACMED
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Do you do #POCUS research? Check out the newly published Standards for POCUS Research Reporting (SPUR) spearheaded by Nikolai Schnittke published in @AcademicEmerMed
@fmbrussell @MGottliebMD @Takeokun @CreaghB @rbcrisp @IM_POCUS @ross_prager
🔗doi.org/10.1111/acem.70069
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Big news! ACS:ED has been published online by the EMJ. Huge congratulations to over 700 TERN collaborators for creating the most accurate picture of chest pain presentations in UK EDs to date! emj.bmj.com/content/early/20…
@EmergencyMedBMJ @fraser_birse @hirstposition @DrTomRoberts
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This morning we ran a Breaking Bad News workshop led by @heff_dr — a great session to practice communication skills and explore techniques for delivering difficult news.
Thanks to all who took part, especially Siobhán from GP Liaison for her spectacular acting! @IrishEMtrainees
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Time and time, this theme recurs on SoMe, and I find myself wondering how the 'solution' is anything but: There is an urgent need for more radiologists & scanning capacity.
I'll just leave this here.
bma.org.uk/advice-and-suppor…
One of the most striking statistics in the 2024 @RCRadiologists workforce census is that “In England in 2023/24, the number of referrals from emergency departments for CT and MRI scans rose by 13%”.
13% in a single year! How can we keep up with the such rapidly growing demand?
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#SundayWiMIN25 Week 23: Dr Carol Blackburn,
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine @CHIatCrumlin, Fellow @RCPI_news Faculty of Paediatrics. National Specialty Director for HST Paediatrics.
➡️ wimin.ie/sundaywimin25
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Short infographic on the potential impact of the FIDO study
What are your preconceptions on managing febrile infants?
youtu.be/IxLFHYtZaGA?feature…
Paper: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Just published! 📢
Proud to share our new study in BMC Pediatrics on the burden of bronchiolitis post-COVID-19 with esteemed authors.
@rawalrashed
@Il_mm95
Insightful findings from a Saudi tertiary center 🇸🇦
Hope it adds value to the #PEM community.
🔗bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com…
#Research #PEMUpdates
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“EMAR-I has been a vital tool for both the assessment and buy-in of our colleagues… and a way to keep asking the honest but difficult question: Are we intubating, and are we intubating well?”
@jimhealy9 , Airway Lead, Galway ED
@IrishEMtrainees @AssocEmergMedIE @GalwayResus
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Did you miss my #POCUS talk at #ICEM2025?
Don't worry – check out the thread 👇 for the top 5 POCUS papers 📰 you should know from 2024
The @ICEM2025 blog also has a focused summary of my talk: icem2025.com/post/icem2025-d…
@CAEP_EUC @CAEP_Docs
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From 26th May, the Smithfield Rapid Injury Clinic will operate from Monday to Thursday 8am to 8pm with last registration at 5:30pm. (1/2)
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If you are a clinician/doctor/healthcare worker who is potentially interested in research, or have completed a research degree, please consider taking part in this project exploring the transition to research & back by MD student, Dr Shahad AlTikriti
eu.surveymonkey.com/r/D3FQKL…
Delighted to have @humphries_niamh at our @MaterTrauma journal club along with the authors, Dr Ciara Mattew and @GillianJudge discussing their paper below. Work to be done to normalise LTFT in Ireland.
@NDTP_HSE @ICGPnews @AssocEmergMedIE @RCPI_news
doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024…