Respiratory Medicine 

Services

The Respiratory Medicine Department provides in-patient, day care and out-patient services including endoscopy procedures, pulmonary function testing and sleep studies. The staffing of the Department includes 6 Respiratory Medicine Consultants.

Contact Details:

Respiratory Medicine Department

St. Vincent's Private Hospital,

Merrion Road,

Dublin 4

Tel: 01 2638877 (If there is no reply please leave a message and your call will be returned as soon as possible) Tel: 01 2638877 (If there is no reply please leave a message and your call will be returned as soon as possible)  

Direct Access

Pulmonary Function Tests: 01 2638877

Consultants 

Dr. Seamas Donnelly, Consultant Respiratory Physician Phone: 01 2214930

Professor Charles Gallagher, Consultant Respiratory Physician Phone: 01 2695033 Ext. 9636

Prof. Michael Keane, Consultant Respiratory Physician Phone: 01 2614069

Dr. Tim. McDonnell Consultant Respiratory Physician Phone: 01 2614024 Ext. 9624

Dr. Edward McKone, Consultant Respiratory Physician Phone: 01 2695005

Prof. Walter McNicholas, Consultant Respiratory Physician Phone: 01 2601188

Special Interests

All consultants specialise in Respiratory Medicine

Prof. Walter McNicholas special interest is in Sleep Apnoea

Prof. Charles Gallagher special interest is in Cystic Fibrosis

Respiratory Unit

The Respiratory Unit which is located in the Out-Patient Department on the first floor comprises the following:

1) Pulmonary Function Testing Service

• Required referral information:

• Patient contact details

• Diagnosis/Reason for test

• Any chest infection

• Tests required

• Whether bronchodilator is contraindicated

• More information

2)   Sleep Disorders Unit.

The Sleep Disorders Unit is located in the Rowan Ward on the Fourth Floor

• Diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnoea.

• Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a condition where the patient stops breathing repeatedly during sleep due to collapse of the upper airway. Patients are excessively tired and may have a history of witnessed apnoeas and/or heavy snoring.

• Another more rare form of sleep apnoea, central apnoea may be present in the absence of snoring.

• Other sleep disorders investigated include Restless legs syndrome, (RLS). (Periodic Leg Movement Syndrome (PLMS) and Narcolepsy.

• More information
  

Website Links

Irish Sleep Apnoea Trust
Irish Sleep Society - Guidelines for the Assessment and Management of Patients with Sleep Disorders

Research

McNicholas WT, Bonsignore MR; Management Committee of EU COST ACTION B26. Sleep apnoea as

priorities. Eur Respir J. 2007 Jan;29(1):156-78. Review. PMID: 17197482 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Doherty LS, Kiely JL, Deegan PC, Nolan G, McCabe S, Green AJ, Ennis S, McNicholas WT. Late-onset

central hypoventilation syndrome: a family genetic study. Eur Respir J. 2007 Feb;29(2):312-6. PMID:

17264323 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

McSharry DG, McElwaine P, Segadal L, McNicholas WT. All that wheezes is not asthma. Lancet. 2007 Sep

1;370(9589):800. PMID: 17765530 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

4. Ryan S, McNicholas WT, Taylor CT. A critical role for p38 map kinase in NF-kappaB signaling during

intermittent hypoxia/reoxygenation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2007 Apr 13;355(3):728-33. Epub

2007 Feb 9. PMID: 17316568 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Ryan S, Nolan GM, Hannigan E, Cunningham S, Taylor C, McNicholas WT. Cardiovascular risk markers in

obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome and correlation with obesity. Thorax. 2007 Jun;62(6):509-14. Epub

2007 Jan 24. PMID: 17251313 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]