Dr. Liam Healy
@drliamhealy
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Consultant Stroke Physician & Geriatrician
Cork, Ireland
Joined April 2016
2% of the population (aged over 85) use this amount of hospital bed days because acute illness in this age group is accompanied by a physical and cognitive decline that will persist until remedied. Properly staffed offsite rehabilitation beds would transform our hospitals.
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https://t.co/06kj5uYBgl Come join our wonderful team in CUH! Locum Consultant position working with Orthogeriatrics in CUH available from September for 1 year.
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Cork University Hospital Group is looking to fill the role of Locum Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine in Cork. Apply today!
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Dr. Emer Ahern, National Clinical Advisor & Group Lead Older Persons @HSELive presents now. She talks about the Clinical Guidelines for care of older adult Major Trauma. "Older adults are not simply people who are older, they are a cohort with different and age specific needs."
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Technical gremlins stopped me joining the Stroke Programme HSCP webinar today. HSCPs are an invaluable, integral part of every stage of the Stroke Pathway. Because some are less visible, it doesn’t make them any less valuable. @kirrabrean @ronancollins7
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“Driving a group, being able to influence others without even knowing you are doing it, is leadership. If you get all the right things in a leader, then you’ve got gold.” - Ronan O’Gara
@KingsCollegeLon @louisebrent28 @ahernemer @ConorHurson @pamelahickey32 @ojedathies @shanicemariev @marywalsh14 @GeriSoc @ucl @FF_Network @hsencca Dr Emer Ahern, Clinical Geriatric Lead of the Irish Hip Fracture Database presents on how we measure what matters to patients and how the hip fracture pathway has been re-designed to be age friendly. "Older adults are not simply people who are older, they are a cohort with
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@bernadettejoanc @NursingOlol @PharmacyOLOL @louisebrent28 @pamelahickey32 @ahernemer @ConorHurson @marywalsh14 @shanicemariev @hsencca @svuh @OlderPersonsSV1 @edsvuh @SVUHTrauma @caitrionacurtin @cuh_hscp Dr Evelyn Hannon, Consultant Geriatrician @CUH_Cork presents her project now 'Sip Til Send: The end of prolonged fasting time for hip fracture patients.' The Sip Til Send initiative sees patients able to sip water until they are sent to theatre. To ascertain its effectiveness,
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Hospitals are not congested because of inappropriate attendances to ED. Access to rehabilitation - the reversal of functional decline that accompanies acute illness in older adults particularly - can get our patients out of hospital, back to their homes, back to themselves.
EXC: A&Es not being overwhelmed by ‘low acuity’ patients, NHS England review finds NHSE expected 20-40% of A&E attends to be patients who could be seen elsewhere. But figure was just 4% Story: https://t.co/9DqBIxZsSo
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Great having Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar address a sell out Stroke Alliance For Europe 2nd #lifeafterstroke conference in Dublin, outlining challenge of stroke for Europe, progress made but a commitment & need to better understand/support life after stroke @ESOstroke
@BIASPstroke
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We have a number of Geriatric Medicine Registrar positions available in @CUH_Cork from July, with opportunities to gain experience in Stroke, Geriatric Medicine and Orthogeriatrics & Trauma. https://t.co/rWrnelmmQY
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Cork University Hospital Group is looking to fill the role of Registrar in Geriatric Medicine at Cork University Hospital in Cork. Apply today!
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Lovely acknowledgment here in @echolivecork, not just of my consultant colleague Dr. Kirstyn James and the team in the @CUH_Cork stroke service, but also the crucial role played by the @AmbulanceNAS in acute stroke care.
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Apart from the sporting benefits of this, it’s a model of public health improvement - get experts to explain key messages to non-experts and, in turn, try to help promote good habits in kids from an early age. Very enjoyable. Learnt a lot.
Cork GAA High-Performance team will hold a Pre-season Athletic Development Workshop on Tuesday, 5th December at 7:30 pm to 9:30. Register at https://t.co/IFbA4nmeKy
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#IASLTCon23 Anne Barrett and Laura Connolly, @SLT_CUH present on 'Complexities, considerations and ethical challenges in the management of severe non-resolving dysphagia.'
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A burdened healthcare system that looks to relieve pressure by suggesting that older people should “just accept their fate”, is one where compassion has become eroded and perspective has been lost.
Boris Johnson became 'obsessed' with 'elderly people accepting their fate' during pandemic, Covid Inquiry hears https://t.co/yf8CFB9Uw2
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Rehabilitation can fix the existential problem of 1/3 of patients getting sicker in hospital. Rehabilitation in tandem with, and especially after, an acute care episode can unblock our hospitals. Not “step down”. Not “convalescence”. Not “transitional care”. Rehabilitation.
Hospitalization-Associated Disability = being discharged with new ADL disability compared to pre-illness baseline Occurs in 1/3 of patients over age 70 Usually after hospitalization for condition not considered disabling + after "successful" medical RX
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- Renal patients don’t get “some dialysis” - Cancer patients don’t get “a bit of chemotherapy” - Septic patients don’t get “a few antibiotics” Rehabilitation after a stroke is dose dependent. It gets people out of hospitals, back to their homes, their families, their lives.
People who have had a stroke should be offered at least three hours of rehabilitation five days a week, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and speech and language therapy, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence @NICEComms says https://t.co/vOr4zxV1hd
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We’re all very proud of our colleagues in the @CUH_Cork Stroke team who won the @SimStarsIRL competition yesterday evening in @UCCASSERT for their simulation of communication in the setting of post-stroke dysphasia and how to figure out what matters most to patients.
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Thank you for the invite. And the very warm welcome. And for giving up your time on a warm early summer evening. Excuse my being slightly unnerved at finding myself back in @DeerparkCBS, a full 31 years since I left.
Huge thank you too @drliamhealy from Cork University Hospital who gave a fantastic talk tonight to our volunteers the talk was an update on acute stroke treatment.
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"Older people are marginalised and perceived as a burden... Nowhere is this more conspicuous than in the context of long-term care." Two years into the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing, we announce a new Lancet Commission:
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The dual advocacy role of geriatric medicine - opening up access to care and protecting from harm of excessive medicalisation in parallel - not Janus faced @mancunianmedic #BGSconf
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#💜NFEP2023 @ahernemer gives a brilliant and passionate talk on what we need to do time and again for our older adults to the benefit of all accessing our healthcare services.
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