The quality of abstract submissions for the Society for Acute Medicine meetings has continued to rise over recent years; 4 abstracts were selected for oral presentation at the Spring meeting this year, and 53 posters were displayed in the conference venue. The abstracts from the oral presentations and the two prizewinning posters are published below. In addition we have included the abstract from the prize-winning poster by Dr Phil Jacobs, presented at the Autumn 2009 meeting; an incorrect version of this abstract was published in an earlier edition of this journal. [download-attachments container="div" style="list" dipslay_icon="1" display_count="1" display__size="0"]