• Incidence of Hospital Acquired Thrombosis (HAT) in a tertiary care hospital 

  Khan, Muhammad Irfan; O'Leary, C.; Silvari, V.; O'Brien, A.; Duggan, C.; O'Shea, S. (Irish Medical Association, 2017-04)

  Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. In spite of guidelines, VTE prophylaxis continues to be underutilised, and hospital acquired thrombosis (HAT) ...
• Diagnostic yield of routine EEG in adults with active epilepsy 

  McGinty, R. N.; Costello, Daniel J.; Kinirons, P.; McNamara, Brian (Irish Medical Association, 2019-01)

  Routine electroencephalogram (rEEG) is an important investigation in suspected seizures but can be normal in people with epilepsy. The diagnostic yield of rEEG varies considerably according to the patient group studied. ...
• Detection and prevention of adverse drug reactions in multi-morbid older patients 

  Jennings, Emma; Gallagher, Paul; O'Mahony, Denis (Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society, 2018-09-12)

  Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are a recognised unintentional form of iatrogenic harm, which commonly occur in older adults who have high levels of multi-morbidity and associated polypharmacy. Previous studies estimate that ...
• Prescriber implementation of STOPP/START recommendations for hospitalised older adults: a comparison of a pharmacist approach and a physician approach 

  Dalton, Kieran; O'Mahony, Denis; O'Sullivan, David; O'Connor, Marie N.; Byrne, Stephen (Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019-01-19)

  Background: Two randomised controlled trials (RCTs) conducted simultaneously in the same Irish university teaching hospital have shown that provision of Screening Tool of Older Persons’ Prescriptions (STOPP)/Screening Tool ...
• Renal cortical oxygen tension is decreased following exposure to long-term but not short-term intermittent hypoxia in the rat 

  O'Neill, Julie; Jasionek, Greg; Drummond, Sarah E.; Brett, Orla; Lucking, Eric F.; Abdulla, Mohammed A.; O'Halloran, Ken D. (American Physiological Society, 2019-01-16)

  Chronic kidney disease (CKD) occurs in more than 50% of patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). However, the impact of intermittent hypoxia (IH) on renal function and oxygen homeostasis is unclear. Male Sprague Dawley ...

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