Over 200 abstracts were submitted for consideration of presentation at the spring meeting of the Society for Acute Medicine, which was held in the Marriott Hotel, Bristol, on 7-8th May 2015. The best of these were selected for oral presentation at a session held on the morning of the 8th May. The abstracts for these presentations are published here.

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