MB BCh BAO, FCICM, MD, FFA RCSI, MSc (Anaes), DIBICM, PG Dip Echo
Martina graduated from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 1997. She was admitted by Fellowship to the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland in 2001 and completed her specialist training in Anaesthesia in Ireland in 2007. During this time she completed a Masters of Medical Science in Anaesthesia. She was awarded a Doctor of Medicine Degree in 2009 for her thesis based on research carried out at NUI Galway from 2004-2006. She moved to Australia in 2008 and was admitted as a Fellow to the College of Intensive Care Medicine in 2009. She has been working as a staff specialist in Intensive Care at Geelong since 2010.
Her areas of interest include Safety and Quality of care delivery, Rapid Response Systems and the Deteriorating Patient, ECMO and Echocardiography. She is a member of the Deteriorating Patient Committee, Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee and Central Venous Catheter Working Group.
Head of ECMO
Martina is the Head of the UHG ICU ECMO service, the 2nd largest adult ECMO program in Victoria.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 11:40
NEJM COVID Ethics - Crisis triage, how do we decide, not discriminate against disability, understand quality of life from the patient perspective, and apply prognostic estimates to a new disease?
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - 21:48BMJ hydroxychloroquine treatment at 600 mg/day in hospitalised patients with with COVID-19 requiring O2 was not associated with decrease ICU admission or 21-day survival after hospital admission compared with standard care
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - 20:32JC JAMA retrospective study of 1438 hospitalised patients with COVID-19 receiving hydroxychloroquine with or without azithromycin reported no significant difference in mortality
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - 18:28JC NEJM Observational propensity matched study of hydroxychloroquine use in patients with COVID-19 and moderate-severe respiratory illness, reported no association of benefit or harm with relation to primary outcome or death or intubation
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 - 16:51