EMARI Background

The Emergency Medicine Airway Registry Ireland (EMARI) was established in 2019 as Ireland’s first national emergency airway registry, with the aim of improving the quality, safety and governance of emergency airway management. The registry was conceived by University Hospital Limerick’s REDSPOT (Retrieval, Emergency and Disaster Medicine Research and Development Unit) and was rebranded to ALERT (Acute, Limerick, Education, Research & Training) programme.    

In 2025, the HSE National Centre for Clinical Audit commissioned NOCA to implement EMARI as a national registry, strengthening clinical governance and supporting safer airway management, for patients across Ireland. EMARI collects high-quality data on emergency intubations performed in emergency departments (ED) and pre-hospital settings nationwide. This provides participating health provider sites with meaningful measures to support local and national clinical audits, benchmarking and quality improvement.  

Building on the success of similar international registries, EMARI supports evidence-based practice, workforce training, opportunities for quality improvement research and patient safety initiatives.