The Abstract Submission System is now closed

Call for Abstracts

The Scientific Committee of the 14th International Conference on Emergency Medicine invites colleagues to submit abstracts to be considered for presentation at the Conference in Dublin in June 2012. Abstracts in the following areas of emergency care are invited:

• Pre-hospital and Disaster Medicine including Military Medicine;
• Triage and Rapid Assessment;
• Resuscitation and Trauma;
• Paediatric Emergency Medicine;
• Clinician Decision Unit Care;
• Office/Administration/Education;
• Technology in Emergency Medicine;
• Research in Emergency Medicine;
• Overcrowding in Emergency Medicine;
• International and Humanitarian Emergency Medicine or
• Any other issues relevant to Emergency Medicine.

The Closing Date for abstract submissions has been extended and is now: 1700 (GMT), Monday 30th January 2012. No abstract will be considered after the closing date. Please note that presenting authors whose abstract are accepted MUST be paid registrants. Abstracts should be submitted online at www.icem2012.org

Abstract Submission Guidelines

There is no limit to the number of abstracts an author or group of authors may submit. Submitted abstracts must be no longer than 2,200 characters and written in English. Authors must indicate the type of presentation for which they would like their abstract(s) considered (i.e., oral presentation only, poster presentation only, oral or poster presentation). A structured abstract is preferred for empirical studies (i.e. Objective, Methods, Findings and Conclusions). For abstracts discussing methods, policy, ethics or social issues, an unstructured format is acceptable.

Guidelines for writing your Abstract

There are several things you can do to save words. First, there is no need to mention institutional review board/ethics committee or animal care committee approval in your abstract since all authors attest to approval at the time of submission and this is mentioned in the editor’s introduction so readers will know that all studies were approved. Second, there is no need to say “a p-value of <0.05 was considered significant”, as this is convention (If an atypical p-value is being used, this should probably be mentioned). Third, the following standard acronyms will be shown in a table at the beginning of the abstracts, and need not be spelled out: 95% CI, ASA, AUC, CBC/FBC, CPR, CT, CXR, DBP, ECG, ED, EM, EMS, HR, INR, IQR, MRI, ROC, RR, SBP, SD (when used as standard deviation after a mean), tPA, IV.

There are several things that you SHOULD NOT do to save words. Please do not use abbreviations of common words to save characters in regular sentences. For example, do not use “pts” for patients repeatedly throughout an abstract. Please do not use characters in place of words (such as “&” for “and”, or “%” for “percent”) when used as a word in sentences. It is acceptable to use the % sign with numbers, such as “there was a 20% reduction”, but not as “we measured the % change in blood pressure”. Do not eliminate spaces to fool the computer into thinking that something is one word instead of two (or more). For example, do not write “and the average blood pressure (80mmHg) was higher in this group” in place of “and the average blood pressure (80 mmHg) was higher in this group” to look like 11 words instead of 12.

Please list as few affiliations as possible, to keep the list below the authors’ names to a minimum. Instead of listing XYZ University for one author, XYZ University School of Medicine for another author, and XYZ University Hospital for another, select one for all three whenever possible.

Review, Acceptance and Notification

All abstracts will be reviewed by an Abstract Review Committee on behalf of the International Scientific Programme Committee. Receipt of abstract submission will be acknowledged via email. E-mail notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to the submitting author in early March 2012. Submission of abstracts constitutes the authors’ consent to have the abstracts published in the official conference proceedings. Abstracts may be edited for publication.

Abstracts from this meeting will be published in Academic Emergency Medicine, the official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Abstracts that have already been published elsewhere, have been accepted for publication at a conference that will result in publication or that will be submitted to a conference that would result in publication if accepted, are NOT eligible for publication in Academic Emergency Medicine. If accepted for presentation at ICEM 2012, you agree to publication of your abstract in Academic Emergency Medicine. Your abstract will not be published elsewhere.

Authors who would like to submit full manuscripts for consideration for publication in Academic Emergency Medicine should view the journal’s “Author Guidelines” at www.aemj.org. Please note that this process is entirely independent of abstract submission to ICEM 2012.