Call for Abstracts

Clinical Abstract:

Have you found an identifiable gap in knowledge relating to clinical practice that warranted investigation? Have you run a quality improvement project? Have you established a new service to fill an identified need? Do you have tips for implementation that you could you pass on to others? This is your chance to share your challenging clinical scenarios with your colleagues, and guide discussion for potential improvements.

SUGGESTED HEADINGS: Background/Rationale: Indicate why the topic is important (knowledge gap). Why was your project undertaken?
Methods: Succinct description of what was done and how, by whom, involving whom and where? What measurements were taken and how?
Outcomes: What did you find/discover? Be succinct yet give the reader a summary analysis of the data and any table or figure.
Implications for practice: What are the clinical implications of this work? What can other practitioners learn? How might this change practice?
Conclusions / Key messages: What can be concluded from the project? Keep your conclusions reasonable and ensure they can be confirmed by the findings of your work. What are the suggestions for future work?

Notification of Acceptance

Notifications of acceptance will be sent via e-mail to the submitting author by mid-April 2025. Abstracts submitted for oral presentations that cannot be accommodated within the program will be considered and reviewed for a place in the Poster program.

Accepted abstracts will be published in a special edition of Heart, Lung and Circulation.

The Conference Managers will not be held responsible for abstract submissions not received via the website or for submission errors caused by Internet service outages, hardware or software delays, power outages or unforeseen events.

General Policies and Requirements

All abstracts must be original work. An abstract should not be submitted if the work has been published/accepted for publication or presented at a national meeting or World Congress held in Australia or New Zealand, prior to the abstract submission deadline.
An abstract must contain sufficient information so that if published it will be a complete report independent of presentation. The text should not contain statements alluding to results or conclusions not presented within the text.
There is no limit to the number of abstracts that may be submitted by an individual. However, splitting of a body of work into multiple abstracts is discouraged and consolidation into one abstract is preferred.
Submission acknowledges consent to publication of the abstract in the special conference publication supplement in the Heart, Lung and Circulation.
The presenting author will be required to register for the Conference in order to ensure their abstract(s) is included in the final program. Deadline for presenting author registration will be advised in the acceptance letter.
All submissions must be completed electronically via the online submission facility. If you are unable to submit in this manner, please contact the Conference Managers at ich@theconferencecompany.com or phone: 1800 193405 (Freecall) or +64 9 360 1240 (NZ) for further information.
All abstracts must be prepared according to the guidelines provided. Abstracts will only be accepted and published if submitted using the supplied template.
The abstract must not exceed the 250 word limit. Abstracts exceeding the 250 limit will be returned for re-submission. The word limit relates to the text only of the abstract and does not include title.
The complete abstract (including text, graphs and tables) must not exceed a size limit of 15cm wide and 12cm in length.
The abstract should be typed in Arial font, size 11pt and single line spacing.
DO NOT include authors and affiliations in the abstract, as these will be entered into the online submission form.

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