Mercure Hotel, Cardiff, 4-5th May 2017
As usual a large number of abstracts were submitted for consideration of inclusion in the spring meeting of the Society for Acute Medicine, which was held in the Mercure Holland House hotel, in Cardiff, and hosted by Dr Nerys Conway. Over 100 abstracts were selected for display as posters, and seven of these were presented orally. The abstracts from the oral presentations are published here.
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