ICEM 2010 - International Conference on Emergency Medicine (ICEM 2010)

The Organising Committee invites participants to submit their abstracts of original, unpublished works, case reports and reviews for oral, poster and/or virtual presentations.
A. General Rules
1 Types of Presentation
1.1 All authors should be prepared to do an oral or poster presentation. However, if you would like to be excluded from oral presentations, please check the appropriate box in the Abstract Form that can be found on www.icem2010.org.
1.2 The Scientific Programme Committee of ICEM 2010 reserves the right to assign a different presentation format from the one selected by the presenting author. There will be three forms of presentation.
i) Free Paper Presentation
A selection of abstracts will be accepted for oral presentation during the Free Paper sessions. Presenters will be given 8 minutes to present their research findings and 2 minutes to answer questions on the presentation.Judging of oral free papers will be conducted during the conference.
ii) Poster Presentation
Participants are also encouraged to submit their work as a poster presentation that promotes direct exchange of ideas between presenter and delegates. Posters will be set up in a dedicated area at the Conference venue. Judging of selected posters will be conducted during the conference.
iii) Virtual Presentation
Abstracts may also be displayed as a virtual presentation via computer screens at the Conference venue. These computer screens will allow delegates to scroll the virtual presentation directory and read additional accepted abstracts onsite.

2 Abstract Receipt Confirmation
2.1 Upon submission, authors will receive an automated acknowledgement by email.
2.2 Lack of confirmation will indicate that the abstract was not received.
2.3 Abstracts must be received by 31 January 2010, Sunday.

3 Notification of Acceptance
The Presenting Author of each abstract accepted for publication will be notified by email by 28 February 2010, Sunday. If the Presenting Author is unable to present the abstract, a co-author can take his/her place. A letter from the Presenting Author informing about the change is requested and must be received by ICEM 2010 Conference Secretariat by 31 March 2010, Wednesday.

4 Withdrawal
Submitted abstracts cannot be withdrawn.

5 Publication
5.1 Abstracts will be published as submitted. Abstracts considered unsuitable for reproduction will not be published. The Abstracts Selection Committee reserves the right to modify the submitted text of abstracts to correct grammatical and sentence construction errors. Every effort will be made, in these instances, not to alter the meaning of the text. Corresponding authors will be contacted for confirmation of the final version prior to publication.
5.2 Abstracts accepted for presentation (either oral, poster or virtual) will be published only if the Conference Registration fee has been paid.

B. How to Send Abstracts
i) Abstracts can only be submitted via the website. Abstracts sent by post or email will not be accepted.
ii) Abstracts must be structured in one of the formats shown on Page 5, as appropriate.
iii) Authors can submit their abstracts online at www.icem2010.org with effect from 1 June 2 009, Monday.
iv) If you experience any unforeseen problems with electronic submission, please contact:

Webmaster
ICEM 2010
Phone : +65 6379 5306
Fax : +65 6475 2077
Email : support-AT-acedaytons-direct.com

Abstracts Submission Topics
? Airway Management
? Alternative Emergency Medicine
? Cardio-Vascular Emergencies
? Clinical Decision Making
? Critical Care in Emergency Medicine
? Customer Quality
? Disaster & Humanitarian Medicine
? ED Administration
? ED Operations
? Emergency Imaging
? Emergency Medicine Around the World
? Emergency Medicine Education
? Emergency Nursing
? Emergency Pre-Hospital Care
? Environmental Emergencies
? Evidence Based Emergency Medicine
? General Emergency Medicine
? Geriatric Emergencies

? Infectious Diseases
? International Emergency Medicine
? IT in Emergency Medicine
? Medico-Legal Issues in Emergency Medicine
? Military Medical Emergencies
? Observation Medicine
? Paediatric Emergency Care
? Patient Safety
? Risk Management
? Research Issues & Methodology
? Respiratory Emergencies
? Resuscitation
? Simulation in Emergency Medicine
? Sports Medicine
? Technological Issues in Emergency Medicine
? Toxicological Emergencies
? Trauma Emergency Care
? Wound & Pain
Scientific Communication
? Online Submission of Abstracts : Opens 1 June 2009, Monday
? Review of Abstracts Begins : 1 September 2009, Tuesday
? Abstracts Submission Deadline : 31 January 2010, Sunday