2-3rd October 2014 at the Brighton Centre

The 8th International conference of the Society for Acute Medicine took place on 2-3rd October 2014 at the Brighton Centre. Over 250 abstracts were submitted for consideration and 120 were selected as posters for display during the conference. 11 of these were selected for oral presentation at the conference. The abstracts for these presentations are published here.

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