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ID	Poster title	Author(s)	Institution	Category
9.21	Histologic evidence of acute cellular rejection in post-transplant lung biopsies	Sinead Ryan	Mater Misericordiae University Hospital	Lung Cancer, Pleural and Surgery	View
9.22	Practice Makes Progress – Importance of Simulation Teaching in Respiratory Medicine and Patient Care. A QI Project to Improve Pneumothorax Management and Chest Drain care among NCHDs	Junaid Rasul Awan	University Hospital Limerick	Lung Cancer, Pleural and Surgery	View
10.01	Supporting alveolar macrophage function to enhance immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the lung	Sarah Connolly	Trinity Translational Medicine Institute	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.02	IL-10 induces homeostatic plasticity in Th1 primed human alveolar macrophages	Donal Cox	Trinity College Dublin	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.03	Meclizine induces aerobic glycolysis in human macrophages and can enhance the glycolytic response to Mtb infection	Laura Gleeson	St James's Hospital	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.04	Are we ordering follow-up chest x-rays for community acquired pneumonia? A prospective audit examining the ordering of follow-up chest x-rays for patients admitted over the course of single week – St Lukes’ Hospital Kilkenny	Robert Allan Murphy	St Lukes Hospital, Kilkenny	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.05	The role of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) in the management of M. tuberculosis infections	John Murray	St James's Hospital, Dublin	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.06	An Unorthodox Phenomena: Dexamethasone reduces glycolysis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infected human macrophages but improves bacillary killing	Lorraine Thong	Trinity College Dublin	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.07	BPaLm Treatment in MDR TB	Eve Blake	St James Hospital	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.08	An Audit of the Management of Pleural Effusions at an Irish Tertiary Teaching Centre	Laura Gleeson	St James's Hospital	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.09	The innate and adaptive immune responses following Mesenchymal Stromal Cell administration before ‘second hit’ injury in rodent pneumonia models	Claire Masterson	University of Galway	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.10	Delivering Effective Treatment for Latent Tuberculosis Infection Using A Hybrid Care Model	Arshima Rasheed	St. Vincent's University Hospital	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.11	Frequency of Spontaneously Expectorated Sputum Samples in Adult People with Cystic Fibrosis, Pre vs Post Elexacaftor/Ivacaftor/Tezacaftor Initiation	Louise Collins	University Hospital Limerick	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.12	Clinical associations and implications of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) positive-culture in cystic fibrosis: An epidemiological analysis	Joseph McHugh	Beaumont Hospital	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.13	Lung Clearance Index (LCI) in adult patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) in the era of CFTR modulators	Magdalena Mulligan	University Hospital Limerick	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.14	Not Always What It Seems: A Cross-Sectional Study Looking at Cystic Fibrosis Patients not prescribed Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Receptor Modulator (CFTR) Therapy	Aoife Carolan	UCC	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.15	An audit to assess whether minimum bundle of aetiological tests are ordered in adults with non-CF bronchiectasis	Kate Devlin	Peamount Healthcare	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.16	Audit of adherence to bronchiectasis guidelines at Galway University Hospitals	Sally Griffiths	Galway University Hospital	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.17	Clinical Audit of Bronchiectasis admissions in a tertiary referral centre and their management	James O'Hanlon	Beaumont Hospital	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.18	Antimicrobial Prescribing in Post-Stroke Aspiration Pneumonian-infection	Fiona Murphy	Galway University Hospital	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.19	Attitudes to COVID-19 Vaccination Amongst High Risk Outpatient Populations	Pierre Albert	Department of Respiratory Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, Dun Laoghaire	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.20	Home oxygen therapy outcomes of post COVID-19 patients (2020-2023). Oxygen Therapy Clinic, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital	Sarah Nolan	Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital	TB, CF & Infections	View
10.21	Pulmonary infiltrates with pulmonary embolism	Zafran Ali	University Hospital Limerick	TB, CF & Infections	View
11.01	A pilot study evaluating the clinical applicability of a novel hardware & software platform (afloTM) in patients with airway disease	Martin Kelly	Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Western Trust	Oral Presentations 2	View
11.02	Implementing SleepHalo as a clinical decision support system (CDSS) for non-compliant complex Continuous positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) therapy cases.	Megan McGrane	Connolly Hospital	Oral Presentations 2	View
11.03	Retrospective 10-year review of medical thoracoscopies in Galway University Hospital 2013 – 2023	Sally Griffiths	Galway University Hospital	Oral Presentations 2	View
11.04	Is Fissure Integrity Affected by the Severity of Emphysema and Does This Direct the Choice of Lung Volume Reduction Procedure?	Ben Shanahan	St Bartholomew's Hospital, London	Oral Presentations 2	View
12.01	Uncontrolled asthma and related risk factors among children attending hospital services in Ireland	Sarah Lewis	Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin	Paediatric	View
12.02	THE IMPACT OF A CLINICAL GUIDELINE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF PLEURAL EMPYEMA AT A TERTIARY PAEDIATRIC CENTRE.	Hadeel Mohamed	Coombe infant and maternity university hospital	Paediatric	View
12.03	Children’s Asthma Pack – A Patient Centred Initiative For A Family Friendly Asthma Education Resource	Mary Devitt	Children's Health Ireland at Tallaght	Paediatric	View
12.04	The changing challenges to the parents of growing children with Cystic Fibrosis in Ireland: The Irish Comparative Outcome Study of Cystic Fibrosis (ICOS)	Rini Bhatnagar	University College Dublin	Paediatric	View
12.05	COVID-19 infection and lung function in children with Cystic Fibrosis. A comparison of pre and post infection FEV1.	Niamh Courtney	Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick	Paediatric	View
2.13	Review of patient experiences of receiving biologic therapy in Cork University Hospital during COVID18 pandemic.	Maher A Casey D Murphy J Plant BJ Murphy D	Cork University Hospital	COVID-19	View
2.14	The clinical features and risk factors for death of COVID-19 patients admitted to a model 3 General Hospital	Abbas, Z., Lee, O., McErney, T., Hogan, C., Periyakaruppan, R., El Gammal, AI.	Department of Respiratory Medicine, Naas General Hospital (NGH), County Kildare	COVID-19	View
2.16	CPAP using the PaO2/FiO2 is a successful first line tool in the treatment of Covid-19 related acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure	Shankar Lal, Eoin Nolan, Abdul Qadeer, Elaine Curran, Junaid Hashmi, Ian Counihan, Tidi Hassan, Ehtesham Khan	Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda	COVID-19	View
2.17	A study of two ubiquitous inexpensive predictive markers for SARS-CoV-2 to guide testing in regions of depleted resources.	R. Keane C. McGarvey A. Basirat C. Varghese	Tallaght University Hospital	COVID-19	View
2.18	Stop The Clot: Improving VTE prophylaxis prescription among patients admitted to hospital with COVID 19: a quality improvement project.	M Calvo-Gurry P Kerr C Sheil A Worrall M Rowland M Lavin E deBarra R Morgan D Ryan	Beaumont Hospital	COVID-19	View
2.19	Pulmonary Function in this era of Aerosol Generating Procedures!	A. Livingstone K. Smyth M. McCaul S. Moan E. Hayes	Department of Respiratory Medicine, Daisy Hill Hospital, Southern Health & Social Care Trust	COVID-19	View
2.20	Clinical characteristics of Coronavirus 2019 positive patients admitted to a district General Hospital	O. Nic Grianna, H. McGurk, M. McCloskey, R. Sharkey, M. Kelly, C. King and P. McShane	Altnagelvin Area Hospital	COVID-19	View
2.21	Clinical Characteristic of COVID-19 death from a Single Centre in Dublin, Ireland	O Omar	TUH , Dublin	COVID-19	View
2.22	Respiratory Multidisciplinary Team Approach to COVID-19 in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Co Louth	R. Reilly	Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Co Louth	COVID-19	View
2.23	Differential diagnosis of Covid-19 infection in Cork University Hospital: Review of Actual Diagnosis in Covid-19 negative patients	L Walsh E McElduff M Kennedy	Cork University Hospital	COVID-19	View
2.24	Splenic Infarcts and Pulmonary Emboli: The Thromboembolic Potential of Covid-19	K. Elkholy, A. Antonenko, A. Gabr, N. McEvoy, D. O’Keeffe, M. O’Connor	University Hospital Limerick	COVID-19	View
2.25	The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on CTPA use in an academic medical centre	Brian Gaffney, John Duignan, Finbarr Conroy, Peter Conlon, Evelyn Lynn, Marcus W. Butler, Michael P Keane, Jonathan D Dodd, David J Murphy, Alessandro N Franciosi, Cormac McCarthy	St Vincent's University Hospital	COVID-19	View
2.26	Preference for blended learning approach to non-invasive ventilation education	S Healy A Hallahan M O’Grady AM Fitzgerald DM Murphy MT Henry	Cork University Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
2.27	Pulmonary embolism diagnosis during an emerging pandemic: A comparison of pandemic to pre-pandemic practice	S Garvey PJ Kerr R Lee RK Morgan ME O’Brien	Beaumont Hospital	COVID-19	View
2.28	An overview of the establishment and delivery of a Virtual Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme in Cork University Hospital for patients following COVID 19 infection.	O’Grady M, Bowen B, Sadlier C, Plant B, Kennedy M, Henry M, Murphy D	Cork University Hospital	COVID-19	View
2.29	A Review of the Supported Discharge Service for COVID-19 Patients Following Admission to Cork University Hospital	O’Grady M, Martin L, Sweeney AM, Walsh M, Plant B, Kennedy M, Sadlier C, Henry M, Murphy D	Cork University Hospital	COVID-19	View
2.31	Patient Demographics & Outcomes in the 1st Wave COVID19 Pandemic within the SHSCT.	J Brannigan, C McCullough, O Thompson, D Cullen & R Convery	Craigavon Hospital	COVID-19	View
2.32	Factors influencing COVID-19 incidence in the counties of the Republic of Ireland: a population based observational study	D O'Malley EF McKone	St Vincents University Hospital	COVID-19	View
2.33	An audit of sputum culture test in patients admitted to a county hospital with community acquired pneumonia	MK.Rana,A Rafi,M Muzamil,S.Rizvi	Mayo University Hospital Castlebar	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.1	An Audit of the documentation of Well’s score and or D-dimers for CTPA requests in the Mater Misericordiae hospital	Dr. Jehangir Kahn, Dr. Killian Armstrong, Prof Sean Gaine	The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.2	A Comparative Study of the European Coal and Steel Community (ERS 1993) and the Global Lung Initiative (2017) Reference Equations used for Diffusion Capacity Testing in an Irish Population	A Bukhari O McGuinness A McGowan L Cormican	Respiratory and Sleep Diagnostic Department, Connolly Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.3	Worrying changes in adolescent e-cigarette use 2014-2019: A secondary analysis of five Irish health datasets	Joan Hanafin Salome Sunday Sheila Keogan Luke Clancy	TobaccoFree Research Institute Ireland	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.4	Atypical CT Imaging of Thoracic Sarcoid Case Series	H Dolphin M Bolger M Rogan M Farrell S Foley	University Hospital Waterford	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.5	Is There a Role for Tracheobronchoplasty in Patients with Severe Debilitating Airway Obstruction?	JB Mc Loughlin D Rice M Aladaileh K Redmond	Department of Thoracic Surgery, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.6	Clinical characteristics of Birt-Hogg-Dube Syndrome in an Irish cohort	O.M. O'Carroll B. Gaffney J. Cullen D.J. Murphy J.D. Dodd A. Fabre M.P. Keane C. McCarthy	Department of Respiratory Medicine, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.7	Use of non-invasive ventilation in Motor Neuron Disease – a retrospective cohort analysis	L Walsh K Deasy A Ryan D Murphy	Cork University Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.8	Improving Internal Medicine Trainee’s Experience: Introduction of a Pleural Skills Lab	D. Cullen C. Hagan N. Chapman A. John L. Polley R. Convery A. Green D. McNicholl	Southern Health and Social Care Trust	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.8	Improving Internal Medicine Trainee’s Experience: Introduction of a Pleural Skills Lab	Cullen D, Chapman N, John A, Polley L, Convery RP, McNicholl D, Hagan C	Craigavon Area Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.9	To Lyse or not to Lyse?	R Deshpande A Murray C Donaghy A Livingstone E Hayes	Daisy Hill Hospital, Southern Trust	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.10	Proteomic analysis reveals different responses to hypoxia in male and female human pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells	D. Kostyunina, E. Dillon, K. Rochfort, P. Cummins, P. McLoughlin	Conway Institute, School of Medicine, University College Dublin	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.11	Gender difference results in increase in adolescent smoking in 2019 in Ireland- European trend analysis of current smoking prevalence 1995-2019	J Hanafin S Sunday S Keogan L Clancy	TobaccoFree Research Institute Ireland	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.12	Standardising the Delivery of High Flow Nasal Oxygen on a Respiratory Ward	N. Ferguson D. Comer D. Moore T. Craig	Mater Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.13	Gallbladder polyps in patients receiving subcutaneous treprostinil therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension	S Cullivan, N Boyle, B McCullagh, SP Gaine	Mater Misericordiae University Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.14	Incorporating Virtual Telehealth into the Oxygen Clinic in Tallaght University Hospital (TUH).	Cunneen S. Scallan C. Baily-Scanlan M. Cullen J. Moloney E. Lane S. Donnelly S. C. Subramaniam A. Varghese C.	Tallaght University Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.15	Pulmonary Embolism assessment why are we still getting it wrong!	C. Donaghy, A Murray, T. Byrne, H. Kennedy, R. Kerr, L. McConville, G. McCurdy, A. Mclean, D. Rafferty, C. Sharkey, E Hayes	Daisy Hill Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.16	Evaluation of a Multidisciplinary Breathlessness Support Service	Goss J, Drury A, Afolabi J., McHugh G., O'Leary N., Brady A. M.	Our Lady's Hospcie & Care Services, TCD School of Nursing and Midwifery	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.17	“Oxygen Prescription & Administration to Inpatients at Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore – An Audit	1. Aneet Kumar 2.Hashim Khan 3.Hidayat Ullah 4.Youseff Guirguis	Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, Co-Offaly	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.18	An audit of the Documentation of Well’s score and or D-Dimers for CTPA requests in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital	D. McMorrough J. Kahn S. Gaine	Mater Misericodiae University Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.19	Pneumothorax; Collapse in compliance? An audit of the management of pneumothorax in an Irish tertiary teaching centre.	E McNally, L Gleeson	St James's Hospital, Dublin	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.20	An Overview of Minimally Invasive Pectus Excavatum Repairs Available in Ireland	D Rice R Fleck S Barrett J McLoughlin KC Redmond	Department of Thoracic Surgery, Mater Misercordiae University Hospital, Dublin Ireland	Lung Cancer/CF/ILD/Surgery	View
3.21	Burden of Nasal Symptoms in Motor Neuron Disease patients	M Talty F Gargoum R Rutherford	Galway University Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.22	Compliance of CXR follow up- An Audit, Beaumont Hospital	S. Toland S. Collins P. Branagan	Beaumont Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.23	Creating a High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) AirvoTM Protocol in Beaumont Hospital	S. Toland C.D. Campbell	Beaumont Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.24	Optimum viscosity of a perfusion solution reduces oedema formation in the isolated mouse lung.	D Walsh (1) J Boylan (2) P McLoughlin (3)	(1) Conway Institute, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin. (2) Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.	Lung Cancer/CF/ILD/Surgery	View
3.25	Acute Respiratory Assessment Unit : A Novel Quality Improvement Initiative	T Byrne Dr A Granitsas Dr H McLoughlin	Portiuncula Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.26	A Service Audit on Patient Flow from Tallaght University Hospital to Respiratory Unit Peamount Healthcare	E Cribbin, A Kurian, A Bradley, B MacNamara, C Slattery, C Lynch, Professor E Moloney, K Anyakudo, M Fitzgerald, Professor S Lane, Dr Kooblall	Peamount Healthcare	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.27	“The Breath Factor”- a pilot study of singing for lung health as part of pulmonary rehabilitation	E. Liston, K. Devenney, C. Gleeson, C.Gray, E. O’Shea	St James's Hospital	Asthma and COPD	View
3.28	An Audit of a Nurse-Led Clinic for Follow Up of Patients with Home Oxygen	A. O’Keeffe M. O’Donnell A. Devi N. Dhondt E. Drudy W. Binalialsharabi K. Breathnach C. Gleeson C. Gray P. Nadarajan	St James's Hospital	Asthma and COPD	View
3.29	Audit of the appropriate prescribing of Low Molecular Weight Heparin in a busy Regional Hospital	A.Rafi, HY Li, NKB Abidin, MK Rana, M Muzammil, S Rizvi	Mayo University Hospital, Castlebar	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.30	A review of the patient experience of the Oxygen Therapy Clinic in Louth County Hospital.	R. Reilly M.O'Reilly	Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Co Louth	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.31	Bronchiolitis Review	D Doyle, J Ryan, RM Rutherford, A O’Regan	Galway University Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.32	Audit on the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on the functioning, effectiveness and efficiency of the Rapid Access Lung Cancer (RALC) pathway	C Farrell, A Scott, D McGrath, B Casserly, A O BrienC Farrell, A Scott, D McGrath, B Casserly, A O BrienC Farrell, A Scott, D McGrath, B Casserly, A O Brien	St John's Hospital Limerick	Lung Cancer/CF/ILD/Surgery	View
3.33	Improving the Efficiency and Accuracy of OSA Diagnostics	C Gill P Coss O Gavin A Martin R McLoughlin T Matthews AM McLaughlin B Kennedy BD Kent	St James' Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.34	Primary human macrophages from healthy individuals show differential susceptibility and inflammatory response to Mycobacterium avium	T Shaw A Krasnodembskaya G Schroeder C O'Kane	Queen's University Belfast	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
3.35	Home-based Virtual Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme (VPR) for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and Asthma.	M. O’Reilly, C. Gillen and J. Smith	Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital	Asthma and COPD	View
3.36	Wait to Move	M Reilly	Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital	Asthma and COPD	View
4.1	Asthma Biological Treatment: Review of patient outcomes with severe brittle asthma in Cork University Hospital.	Casey D Farrell A O' Sullivan G Murphy J Plant BJ Murphy D	Cork University Hospital	Asthma and COPD	View
4.2	Asthma exacerbations requiring ICU: patients more likely to have prior history of smoking and prior ICU admission.	C. Hayes, D. Long, RW Costello, DM Ryan	Beaumont Hospital	Asthma and COPD	View
4.3	Characteristics of Chronic Rhinosinusitis in Severe Asthma Cohort.	M Talty H Mulryan M Harrison M Thornton A O'Regan	Galway University Hospital	Asthma and COPD	View
4.4	The Impact of Biofeedback on Self-efficacy in Adults with Asthma	J. Walsh Z. Moore B. Murray	Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland	Asthma and COPD	View
4.5	Prevalence of Osteoporosis in Patients with Severe Asthma Requiring Biological Treatment: A Single-Centre Study	L Thong D Casey J Murphy BJ Plant DM Murphy	Cork University Hospital	Asthma and COPD	View
4.6	Efficacy of supervised maintenance exercise in peer support groups to maintain gains following pulmonary rehabilitation: A quasi-experimental study	B Murphy, A Holmes, B Fitzgibbon	University of Limerick, St. Luke's Hospital Kilkenny	Asthma and COPD	View
4.7	Association between oxygen therapy and adverse events in hypercapnic COPD patients	S Joomye, A Betts, J Joomye, D O’Sullivan, S Donnelly,S Lane, E Moloney, C Varghese, M Khooblall, A Subramaniam	Tallaght University Hospital	General Respiratory and Sleep	View
4.8	Real life uptake of Virtual Pulmonary Rehabilitation (VPR) in chronic lung disease	A O' Mahony P Tonge C Kelly S O' Beirne	SVUH	Asthma and COPD	View
4.9	Evaluating Palliative Care Referral and Mortality Rates in St Michael’s COPD Outreach Service	D.Kuda K.O' Sullivan S.O'Beirne P.Gregan	St Michael's Hospital	Asthma and COPD	View
4.10	Tele Pulmonary Rehabilitation in the COVID-19 Pandemic, the New Normal for COPD Patients. The Impact of Tele-PR on Hospital Admission Rates	M Leitermann B Murray	Mayo University Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland	COVID-19	View
4.11	An Audit of Asthma Deaths at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin	A O'Connor C Hayes D Long RW Costello DM Ryan	Beaumont Hospital	Asthma and COPD	View
4.12	Aspirin Desensitization for NSAID-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease – A Single Centre Experience	C Ottewill, J Maxwell, S Varghese, S O’Brien, S Lane	Tallaght University Hospital	Asthma and COPD	View

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