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SOA27

29 June – 1 July 2027 + Add to calendar Birmingham ICC Birmingham

Showcase your work

Abstracts are at the heart of our State of the Art Congress, showcasing the creativity, scientific excellence, and innovation that drive improvements in intensive care. They provide a platform for voices from across the multi-professional team to share new research, quality improvement initiatives, educational projects, and fresh perspectives on the challenges facing critical care.

Whether you are an experienced presenter or submitting your work for the first time, SOA27 offers an opportunity to engage with colleagues, contribute to the wider critical care community and help shape the future of patient care.

This year’s abstract programme offers these opportunities to get involved:

  • Research and Practice Abstracts: Oral and ePoster Presentations
    Share research, audits, innovations, and clinical cases with the community
  • Critical Care Tales: Practice and Innovation Abstracts
    Showcase stories, improvements, and ideas that change practice
  • Rising Star: Early-Career Investigator Award
    Recognising outstanding science in intensive care medicine

We look forward to hearing your ideas, sharing your insights, and celebrating the work that drives intensive care forward. Submit your abstract and be part of the conversation at SOA27.

Submit your abstract here

 

Abstract categories and guidance

Click on the relevant abstract category below for information on submission guidelines. When submitting your abstract, please note that abstracts are limited to 500 words - references to 200 words.

Oral and ePoster Presentations

Research and Practice Abstracts: Oral and ePoster Presentations
Sharing research, audits, innovations, and clinical cases with the critical care community

Background
SOA 2027 provides an opportunity to showcase your research, audit findings, service innovations, and clinical case studies to a national and international audience. Whether you are presenting new evidence, quality improvement initiatives, or innovative approaches to patient care, this is your chance to contribute to the advancement of critical care practice.

There are two ways your work may be presented:

• ePosters and Rapid-Fire Discussions Accepted abstracts will be displayed on large digital screens during the Congress, with authors invited to give a short 5-minute presentation followed by discussion. Posters will also be available on the online platform during and for six months after the event, giving your work extended visibility.

• Oral Abstract Presentations The 6 highest-scoring abstracts will be selected for a main programme session. Authors will present a 15-minute talk (10 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes for questions) highlighting the most important findings.

This is your opportunity to share your insights nationally and internationally, and to contribute to the growing body of critical care knowledge.

ePoster and oral guidelines - SOA27.pdf

 

Critical Care Tales

Critical Care Tales: Practice and Innovation Abstracts
Showcasing stories, improvements, and ideas that change practice

Background
Behind every advance in intensive care are the people, teams, and ideas that make it happen. Critical Care Tales is your opportunity to share the experiences, innovations, and insights shaping how we work and care for patients.

We are inviting all members of the multi-professional team (all professions, all grades, including students) to submit an abstract highlighting any of the following:

  • Quality improvement
  • Multi- professional approach to care
  • Innovations in practice and service delivery
  • Workforce development and wellbeing
  • Controversies in intensive care
  • New ideas with the potential to change practice

Abstracts will be reviewed and the top scoring entries invited to present at SOA27. Presentations will be concise and engaging, with time for discussion (8 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes for questions). Work not selected for the oral session will still be featured in digital poster displays and rapid-fire discussions in the exhibition hall, as well as on the online platform during and after the Congress.

This is a chance to celebrate the creativity and dedication of the intensive care community, and to share ideas that may have a ripple effect far beyond your own unit.

Critical Care Tales guidelines - SOA27.pdf

 

Rising Star

Rising Star: Early Career Investigator Award
Recognising outstanding science in intensive care medicine

The Intensive Care Society wishes to promote and encourage the presentation of the best critical care science in the UK. The ICS Rising Star is awarded annually to an early career investigator (nurse, AHP or doctor) who has shown excellence in science relevant to intensive care.

A maximum of five submissions will be shortlisted for the Rising Star oral presentation at SOA27 taking place 29 June – 1 July 2027 at the ICC Birmingham. The time allocated for each presentation is 15 minutes (10 minutes presentation, plus 5 minutes for Q&A).

Eligibility: This award is only for early career researchers who are within five years of completing a substantial body of research such as completion of an MD or PhD. This opportunity is not available to experienced researchers.

Please ensure that you provide a written abstract as well as the application form. The abstract will be used for the State of the Art (SOA) publication within the Journal of the Intensive (JICS). 

Rising Star guidelines - SOA27.pdf Rising Star application form - SOA27.docx

 

 

Abstract key dates

Contact

If you have any queries about the submission process or you want to withdraw your submission please contact us at soa@ics.ac.uk.