Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance Service
- Accessing Critical Care Emergency Patient Transfer
- Single point of contact for all MICAS referrals (Cork, Dublin and Galway[soon])
- Call handling facility, (National Transport Medicine Programme)
- Referring, MICAS and receiving consultant to collaborate on one phone call
- The decision to retrieve any patient remains with the MICAS consultant on call
- Adult retrieval coordinator will arrange ambulance dispatch once call agreed
- Co-ordination of MICAS services nationally
- Activation of MICAS teams and National Ambulance Service
- 1800 222378 (1800 ACCEPT) 08:00- 20:00 Mon-Sun
From referring unit
If you require a critical care retrieval team (MICAS):
- Call 1800 222 378 08.00h -20.00h, 7 days
- On weekdays: call answered by a call handler and co-ordinated by the MICAS co-ordinator
- At weekends: call answered by a call handler and connected directly to the MICAS ICU on call in Dublin
