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Abstracts 21st ESICM Annual Congress Lisbon, Portugal 21–24 September 2008
This supplement issue of the official ESICM/ESPNIC journal Intensive Care Medicine contains abstracts of scientific papers presented at the 21st Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
The abstracts appear in order of presentation from Monday 22 September until Wednesday 24 September 2008.
The same abstract numbering is used in the Congress final programme.
Congress Committee
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Chairman
Andy Rhodes, London, United Kingdom
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Acute respiratory failure
Christian Putensen, Bonn, Germany
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Cardiovascular dynamics
Jan Poelaert, Gent, Belgium
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Ethics
Elie Azoulay, Paris, France
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Health services research and outcomes
Philipp Metnitz, Vienna, Austria
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Infection
Claude Martin, Marseille, France
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Metabolism, Endocrinology, Nephrology, and Nutrition
Michael Joannidis, Innsbruck, Austria
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Neuro-Intensive Care And Emergency Medicine
Peter Andrews, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Peri-Operative Intensive Care
Michael Hiesmayr, Vienna, Austria
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Systemic Inflammation And Sepsis
Konrad Reinhart, Jena, Germany
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Technology Assessment And Health Informatics
Carl Waldmann, Reading, United Kingdom
Research Committee
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Chairman
Daniel De Backer, Brussels, Belgium
Education And Training Committee
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Chairman
Hans Flaatten, Bergen, Norway
Nurses And Allied Healthcare Professionals
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Christina Jones, Prescot, United Kingdom
Congress Abstract book
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Abstracts submitted and selected under the label ECCRN. To be displayed during the three-day congress at the Best Abstract & ECCRN corner (Pavilion 2-Exhibition Area, 1st Floor, next to the coffee area). 
Abstracts pre-selected for the Poster Awards
* Author & presenter
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Supplement September 2008. Intensive Care Med 34 (Suppl 1), 1–4 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-008-1238-x
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-008-1238-x