Ongoing Areas of Research

Perioperative care

• Nausea post CABG: Is a nasgastric tube effective in reducing the incidence.
  Burclau C, Healy DG, Towmey C, Tierney A, Veerasingam D, Buggy D.

• Heat shock proteins induced by cardio pulmonary bypass and post operative metabolic acidosis.
  Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department/Anaesthetic Department .

Surgical Techniques

• Mitral valve reconstruction: a review of 18 years experience.
  Wood AE.

Cardiac Transplantation

• MD Research Programme “Can individual variation in neutrophil function predict acute cardiac transplant rejection?”
  Joint Project between National Centre for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery & The Department of Surgery, Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4.  Research grants from the Mater College & Irish Heart Foundation.

Lung Transplantation

• Genetic determinants of lung fibrosis.
  Egan JJ, Wood AE, Keating D, Doran P.