9th -10th May 2013, Hilton Hotel, Coventry

Over 200 abstracts were submitted to this year’s Society for Acute Medicine spring meeting which was held in the Hilton hotel, Coventry on 9-10 May 2013. Around 60 were accepted presented as posters, and 6 as oral presentations. The abstracts for the oral presentations are published here, while the poster abstracts are available on the Society for Acute Medicine website (www.acutemedicine.org.uk)

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