title: Selected abstracts from the 3rd international meeting of the society for acute medicine.
abstract: Over 100 posters were presented at the 3rd International meeting of the Society for Acute Medicine, held on 1st-2nd October at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. The following are abstracts from the posters which were awarded 'best poster' prizes by the judging panel, in the categories for Case Reports, Service Organisation and Delivery and Audit/Research.