Prime Time features RCSI experts
On 31 March, RTE’s Prime Time featured RCSI experts discussing the challenges of COVID-19 across a range of specialties.
These included Prof. Ger Curley (critical care); Prof. Arnie Hill (surgery); Natalie McEvoy (ICU nursing) and Prof. Eoghan De Barra (infectious disease).
The segment explored the transmission mechanisms of the virus in healthcare settings, the importance of PPE and the challenges presented by seriously ill COVID-19 patients.
Watch the Prime Time segment here:
RTE Prime Time segment
You can watch the programme in full on the RTE Player here.
Additionally, Prime Time spoke to RCSI experts to help make sense of the daily numbers that are being reported in the news, the context to the testing process, and how the disease develops.
RCSI Prof. Sam McConkey and Prof. Ruairi Bruagh lend their voices to help explain how the infections of today become the confirmed cases of the near future in this video:
