AbstractsPoster Guidelines & Instructions
A platform to record and upload your poster presentation will be available from 13 April until 04 May, an individual link has been sent along with the guidelines.
If you are the submission manager, and not the presenting author, please note that further technical communications for uploading have only be sent to the speaker.
Please be aware that all presenting authors must register for the conference; the registration fee will not be waived.
Poster Sessions
Your presentation should be based on one single slide.
Please carefully read the following GUIDELINES.
We recommend that you use one of the two following slide templates: TEMPLATE
One or two chairpersons will organise these poster corner sessions. You will have four minutes to present your single slide on a 50-inch flat screen with an additional three-minute period for discussion (questions from the chairperson and/or from the audience).
Please arrive at the allocated screen in the Exhibition Area a few minutes before your session. Please be on time and do not exceed your presentation time.
Review Process
The submitted abstracts have been examined anonymously by the ESICM Reviewers. We thank the abstracts submitters and congratulate those selected. We also encourage the authors not selected to resubmit for the ESICM LIVES 2022 in Paris.
The authors have been informed of acceptance/rejection of their abstract by email on 09 March. Presentation details have been sent by email on 25 March. All abstracts selected for mandatory presentation at the Conference will be either presented as oral or e-poster presentations. There will be no publication in the ICMx Journal (no Abstract Book) for LIVES 40.
The abstract submission system closed on 03 February 2022. Abstract submitters received an e-mail confirmation immediately after submitting their abstract. If you did not receive this e-mail, please contact the Abstract Department.
Five Best Abstracts Awards
Presenters of the 5 best abstracts will receive free registration for one of our forthcoming ESICM events (EuroAsia Delhi 2022 or LIVES Forum Athens 2022 or LIVES Paris 2022 or one e-Master Class).
Abstracts selected by the jury will be presented in our session Abstract Award Winning Session during LIVES 40 in Madrid on Saturday 14 May between 09:30-10:45 in Room Gran Madrid.
- Impact of dexamethasone on the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in mechanically-ventilated COVID-19 patients: a propensity-matched cohort study - A. Guzzardella (Milan, IT)
- Outcomes of patients with initial acute respiratory failure on veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) requiring additional circulatory support by VVA-ECMO - R. Erlebach (Zurich, CH)
- Derivation of clinical phenotypes in critically ill COVID-19 patients - N. Bruse (Nijmegen, NL)
- Optimisation of piperacillin-tazobactam dosing regimen for critically-ill patient with sepsis: the OPT-TAZ population pharmacokinetics study - S. Sarfati (Rouen, FR)
- Non-invasive ventilation in elderly patients with COVID-19 – a prospective cohort study - K. Polok (Kraków, PL)
Notes:
- LIVES 40 will be an exclusive on-site event. All presenting authors must register for the conference and present their abstract in Madrid.
- Registration fees for the presenting author will not be waived.
- Submission of an abstract constitutes a formal commitment by the author to present the abstract at the session and the time decided by the Conference Committee. One of the co-authors can take over if needed.
- It is the authors' responsibility to submit abstracts in perfect order with no errors in spelling and grammar. Abstracts will not be corrected.
- ESICM does not accept case reports.
- The authors agree that ESICM will record the presentation for subsequent use as it deems appropriate.
- The signing author certifies that any work with human or animal subjects related in this abstract complies with the guiding principles for experimental procedures set forth in the Declaration of Helsinki and related publications.
