Call for Abstracts – Now Closed!

Oral Presentation - This spoken presentation format will be about 10 minutes long, including introduction and question and answer time. Presenters can display their research and/or findings of their accepted abstract in a slide presentation.

Lightning Presentation - Five Minutes, Five Slides - This oral presentation format requires presenters to make their point clearly and limit non-critical information during the presentation in the allotted five-minute presentation time.

Table Top Presentation - Presenters have the opportunity to present to several different small groups. At timed intervals, listeners will move to another table to participate in another presentation. The presenter will give the presentation several times to different listeners during the session. This informal presentation style facilitates discussion, the exchange of ideas, and networking with other delegates.

Poster Presentation - Presenters will display a printed poster in the exhibition space. Each day of the Congress will have a dedicated poster session in which presenters will be able to present their posters, answer questions, and interact with delegates. Additionally, presenters will be able to upload their posters to an online poster gallery.

While every effort will be made to accept an abstract for the presentation type selected in the submission process, the Committee reserves the right to change the presentation type.

The options for submission type are Original Research, Systematic Review, Research Report, Field Report, and Case Report.

Original Research is structured research that uses quantitative and/or qualitative data collection methods and analyses to establish a hypothesis, association(s), or prove a cause-and-effect relationship.

Systematic Reviews are structured, rigorous reviews of published and “grey” literature to clarify areas where there seems to be lack of consensus.

Research Reports are structured reports that describe preliminary research findings, activities, or aspects of science that provide information for the progression of knowledge or understanding. An example of a research report is a Scoping Review.

Field Reports provide analysis and direct observations of prehospital, emergency health, and disaster-related events.

Case Reports provide a detailed overview of symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of an individual patient or cohort of patients.

• Abstracts are to be submitted in English.
• The presenting author should be the first named author on the abstract.
• Email correspondence regarding the abstract will be with the presenting author.
• Abstracts must not exceed 300 words (excluding the title, authors, and affiliations).
• Commercial presentations are not permitted.
• There is no fee for submitting an abstract.
• The abstract should not be written using first-person pronouns such as "we," "our," or "I."
• Abstracts should not contain any tables or figures.
• The use of abbreviations and acronyms should be kept to a minimum.
• Abstracts submitted as Original Research, Systematic Reviews, and Research Reports should be organized under the following sections:

• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Conclusion
• Abstracts submitted as Field Reports and Case Reports will be summaries.