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Getting the message
The recent ransomware attack on the HSE and Department of Health has highlighted the need for an appropriate back-up communication tool when the system is down.
Peter Doyle reports
The chaos began to unfold on May 14 – the day when the country woke up to find its health service was under siege from an unscrupulous gang of computer hackers.
With Health Service Executive (HSE) staff unable to access patient data, men, women and children arriving at hospital clinics for potentially life-saving treatments such as radiotherapy were told their appointments had been cancelled until further notice.
It later emerged that the hi-tech criminal gang had left a digital note on HSE servers, informing health managers it would cost the Irish taxpayer $20 million (€16.3m) to get the encrypted files unlocked.
Time is of the essence in treating people who have suffered this kind of injury. Someone whose airways are blocked will die within six minute unless treated. The survival time for collapsed lungs is up to 15 minutes, and for severe bleeding is 25-30 minutes.
âEmbarrassingâ absence
Under the plan, patients who are within 45 minutes of the two major trauma centres will be brought there for treatment; otherwise they will go to one of a network of trauma units for stabilisation and possibly onwards to Cork or the Mater.
Dr Synnott describes the lack of a major trauma network up to now as embarrassing. Inter-hospital communication results in vital time being wasted. At its most extreme, a patient with multiple injuries might have to be brought to different hospitals for treatment â Tallaght for the pelvis, the Mater for the spine, Beaumont for the brain. A rock climber from Dublin who falls off a cliff in Mayo, is treated locally and then transferred to the capital, migh