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CEM abstracts

• Day 1: CEM Free Paper Session One: Barbour Room West 12:00-13:30: 001 High sensitivity troponin: validation and subsequent audit of a novel “rule out” cut-off (14 September, 2011)

  R Body, G Burrows, G Cook, S D Carley, M France, J Jarvis, B Haves, P S Lewis
• Day 1: CEM Free Paper Session One: Barbour Room West 12:00-13:30: 002 Special delivery: where best to take a head injured patient? (14 September, 2011)

  A Pickering, K Cooper, S Harnan, A Sutton
• Day 1: CEM Free Paper Session One: Barbour Room West 12:00-13:30: 003 Whole Body CT scanning for severe blunt multitrauma: analysis of the TARN database 2005–2010 (14 September, 2011)

  P Hunt, F Lecky, O Bouamra
• Day 1: CEM Free Paper Session One: Barbour Room West 12:00-13:30: 004 Does the use of the A&E theatre reflect the demise in the surgical skills of the emergency physician? (14 September, 2011)

  J Cooper, J Hannah, W Brown
• Day 1: CEM Free Paper Session One: Barbour Room West 12:00-13:30: 005 An external validation of the PECARN clinical decision rule for minor head injury (14 September, 2011)

  G Fuller, F Lecky, J Batchelor, J Dunning
• Day 1: CEM Free Paper Session One: Barbour Room West 12:00-13:30: 006 Tuning fork testing on ankle injuries: does it improve the accuracy of the Ottawa ankle rules? (14 September, 2011)

  A Welling, S Cooke, A Dewey, M Archer, B Higgins, G Carss
• CEM Free Paper Session Two: Barbour Room West 14:30-15:00: 007 “Virtual ED”: utilisation of a discrete event simulation-based framework in identifying “real-time” strategies to improve Patient Experience Times in an Emergency Department (14 September, 2011)

  W Abohamad, J McInerney, A Arisha
• CEM Free Paper Session Two: Barbour Room West 14:30-15:00: 008 Risk assessment of patients presenting to the ED with chest pain and equivocal cardiac troponin T (cTnT) levels: the lost tribe? (14 September, 2011)

  C Cook, A Krom, T Sood
• Four Top Scoring CEM Abstracts Hall 1 16:30-17:30: 009 No more “admit for 12 h trop”? Cardiac markers point of care testing in patients with suspected low to moderate risk ACS (14 September, 2011)

  D Robinson, T Choudhry, S Nisar, M Barker, G Lee
• Four Top Scoring CEM Abstracts Hall 1 16:30-17:30: 010 Quality, performance and performance indicators: use of a standardised template to develop and promote quality and performance in Australasian Emergency Departments (14 September, 2011)

  P G Richardson
• Four Top Scoring CEM Abstracts Hall 1 16:30-17:30: 011 Pilot project evaluating HIV testing in St George's Emergency Department (14 September, 2011)

  M C Hempling, M Pakianathan, W Majewska, K Shields, S Davey, J Karim
• Four Top Scoring CEM Abstracts Hall 1 16:30-17:30: 012 Retrospective analysis of cervical spine radiography in a tertiary head injury centre (14 September, 2011)

  R Shafei, A Baneke, D Fink, J Costello
• Day 2: Rod Little Prize Hall 1 14:00-15:30: 013 Resuscitation feedback and targeted education improves quality of pre-hospital resuscitation in Scotland (14 September, 2011)

  S Clarke, R M Lyon, D J Milligan, G R Clegg
• Day 2: Rod Little Prize Hall 1 14:00-15:30: 014 Routine HIV testing in the Emergency Department: a tale of two trials (14 September, 2011)

  S Finlay, M Rayment, C Rae, P Roberts, A Sullivan
• Day 2: Rod Little Prize Hall 1 14:00-15:30: 015 Temporal trends in head injury outcomes from 2003 to 2010 in England and Wales, and the effect of specialist neurosciences care: a Cohort Study (14 September, 2011)

  G Fuller, F Lecky, M Woodford, O Bouamra, T Jenks, T Coats, P Hutchinson
• Day 2: Rod Little Prize Hall 1 14:00-15:30: 016 Occurrence reporting and significant events during aeromedical transportation: a review of 18 months of retrievals by the Scottish Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) (14 September, 2011)

  C E Moultrie, A R Corfield, S Hepburn
• Day 2: Rod Little Prize Hall 1 14:00-15:30: 017 Process management of sepsis. The implementation of a modified triage tool (SEPTIC) in an inner city Emergency Department and its effects on the management of sepsis (14 September, 2011)

  G O'Connor, T Breslin, E Brazil, J McInerney
• Day 2: Rod Little Prize Hall 1 14:00-15:30: 018 One-year prognosis after syncope and the failure of the ROSE decision instrument to predict 1-year adverse events (14 September, 2011)

  S S Henderson, M J Reed, D E Newby, A J Gray
• Day 3: CEM Free Paper Session Three: Barbour Room West 13:00-14:30: 019 Nerve blocks: the next hip thing? (14 September, 2011)

  L Buxton
• Day 3: CEM Free Paper Session Three: Barbour Room West 13:00-14:30: 020 Proformas: how to ensure compliance and is there any point? The Birmingham experience (14 September, 2011)

  Y Wimalasena, P Ahee, A Borowska
• Day 3: CEM Free Paper Session Three: Barbour Room West 13:00-14:30: 021 Non-standard practice of phlebotomy techniques: a significant cause of wasted samples and potential misleading results in Emergency Medicine (14 September, 2011)

  J E Berg, J D Berg, P Ahee
• Day 3: CEM Free Paper Session Three: Barbour Room West 13:00-14:30: 022 Methoxyflurane: would giving the “Green Whistle” the green light benefit mountain casualties in Snowdonia? (14 September, 2011)

  S Burgess, L Dykes
• Day 3: CEM Free Paper Session Three: Barbour Room West 13:00-14:30: 023 Multiprofessional morning handover in the Emergency Department: is it effective? (14 September, 2011)

  K Lajko, S Dev, N Adshead
• Day 3: CEM Free Paper Session Three: Barbour Room West 13:00-14:30: 024 Matrix marking system: a future for debrief and assessment (14 September, 2011)

  J Hanson, M Pimblett, M Dickinson, G Jones, M Davis
• APEM Free Papers: Four Top Scoring APEM Free Papers Day 1: Hall 2 16:30-17:30: 025 Management and outcomes of febrile infants (14 September, 2011)

  M Hare, D Burke, C Rimmer
• APEM Free Papers: Four Top Scoring APEM Free Papers Day 1: Hall 2 16:30-17:30: 026 Retrospective study of eye swabs sent from the emergency department of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow (14 September, 2011)

  M Wallace, F Russell
• APEM Free Papers: Four Top Scoring APEM Free Papers Day 1: Hall 2 16:30-17:30: 027 Paediatric emergency department attendances between 2000 and 2009: trends in a large UK Children's Hospital (14 September, 2011)

  J Lai, S Mason, D Burke, S A Julious, J V Freeman
• APEM Free Papers: Four Top Scoring APEM Free Papers Day 1: Hall 2 16:30-17:30: 028 Determining the effect of objective and subjective criteria on a risk assessment tool in a Children's Emergency Department (14 September, 2011)

  D Roland, F Davies, G Lewis
• APEM Free Papers: Four Top Scoring APEM Free Papers Day 1: Hall 2 16:30-17:30: 029 Clinical decision rules for children with minor head injury: a systematic review (14 September, 2011)

  A Pickering, S Harnan, P Fitzgerald, A Pandor, S Goodacre
• APEM Free Papers: Four Top Scoring APEM Free Papers Day 1: Hall 2 16:30-17:30: 030 Multi-centre study of the emergency management of allergic reactions and anaphylaxis (14 September, 2011)

  H Helin, M Perkin, R Gumm
• APEM Free Papers: Four Top Scoring APEM Free Papers Day 1: Hall 2 16:30-17:30: 031 Delivering safety net advice and the Emergency Department Clinical Quality Indicator of unplanned re-attendance in children (14 September, 2011)

  D Roland, T Geliot, A Patel