FREE PAPER PRESENTATIONS & E-POSTERS

Participants are requested to submit abstracts online to the Congress Secretariat from May 29, 2009 until November 1, 2009. Please note that abstracts can only be submitted online.

Authors can submit up to 3 abstracts. During the submission process, authors may indicate their preferred presentation type (e-posters or free paper presentation). The final decision in regards to the presentation type, however, will be taken by the Scientific Committee.

Abstracts will be approved according to their scientific/clinical merit and should be based on previously unpublished data. Abstracts may be submitted in English only. Submission of an abstract constitutes a commitment by the author to present at the Congress if accepted.
Abstract acceptance and programme scheduling will be communicated to the corresponding author’s e-mail address. Hard copies of abstracts will not be accepted.

Authors will be able to draft the abstracts online and may return to the site to edit the texts of the abstracts if necessary. Authors are free to finalise their texts and submit their abstracts at any time before Sunday, November 1, 2009. No changes can be made after this date.

Posters will be accepted as electronic posters only. If admitted, a three-minute oral presentation of this poster in a designated poster session is foreseen. E-Posters will be accessible for the delegates on computers throughout the congress.

A highly qualified international panel of reviewers will assess all submitted abstracts. Notification of acceptance and information regarding presentations will be forwarded to the authors immediately after the reviewing process, by e-mail. For your abstract to be included in the final scientific programme, it is mandatory to register for the congress and to settle payment as soon as you have received the notification of abstract acceptance.

By submitting an abstract, copyrights are transmitted automatically to the 11th European Congress of Trauma and Emergency Surgery.

Abstracts will be published in a supplement of the European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery as they have been received.

If, for some valid reason, you are unable to submit your abstract in the format described on the website, or if you encounter any problems with your online abstract submission, please contact the Congress Secretariat at estes2010 (at) mondial-congress.com.

There are a limited number of Congress Grants available via ESTES.
To receive an application form, please contact the Congress Secretariat at estes2010 (at) mondial-congress.com.

THE FOLLOWING PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED:

• Best Oral Presentations
• Best E-Posters
• Best original paper in the 2009 Journal of Trauma & Emergency Surgery (ESTES Award)
• Prize of the Belgian Trauma Society

Prizes are awarded at the Closing Ceremony. Further information will be made available online.