Call for Abstracts

For abstract guidelines and submission go to: http://www.med.miami.edu/med/education/cme/x39.xml.

Abstracts are invited for presentation at the Perioperative Medicine Summit being held in conjunction with the Society for Perioperative Medicine and Quality Improvement (SPAQI).

Deadline

Abstract submissions must be received no later than December 1, 2008. Submitting authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by December 15, 2008.

Submission Categories

We welcome abstracts in the following categories:

RESEARCH IN PERIOPERATIVE MEDICINE

Submissions can report clinical and/or laboratory-based research or consist of a systematic review of a clinical problem. Research abstracts concerned with efficiency, cost, or medical decision-making are also encouraged.

INNOVATIONS IN PERIOPERATIVE MEDICINE

Authors who wish to describe an innovative program in perioperative medicine are encouraged to submit to this category. Innovations will primarily be descriptive, but they may also include preliminary data. A more rigorous evaluation of an innovative program should be submitted as a research abstract, rather than an innovation. For example, an innovation may describe a novel strategy for dissemination of practice guidelines, whereas a research abstract may analyze its impact on length of stay or post-operative morbidity or mortality.

PERIOPERATIVE CLINICAL VIGNETTES

A clinical vignette is a report of one or more cases that illustrates a new disease entity or prominent or unusual clinical feature of an established disease, highlights an area of clinical controversy in perioperative medicine, or illustrates a unique patient safety issue. It may include a summary of pertinent patient history, physical findings, laboratory data, or management description. It should be clear from the discussion of the abstract why the vignettes are appropriate for a perioperative medicine competition (versus general internal medicine, hospital medicine, or anesthesiology). Clinical vignettes will be judged on originality, organization, writing clarity, and relevance to perioperative medicine.