​Abstract Submission Information

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Submission Information 
The poster abstract submission deadline ended 15 April 202.
The oral abstract submission deadline ended 31 January 2025. 

The maximum count for an abstract is 300 words.
Poster abstract submissions may include these suggested themes:

1. Advances in Clinical Practice

• Technology integration: Leveraging innovative technologies that enhance care delivery and improve patient safety and/or clinical outcomes.
• Care team collaboration: Engaged, connected interprofessional teams optimize perianaesthesia care delivery to improve team satisfaction and patient experience.
• Patient centered care: Prioritizing patients’ preferences and including them in treatment planning / decision-making to deliver personalized care in fast-paced care settings (for example: pre-anaesthesia optimization; pain management, opioid safety; cultural considerations; impact from social drivers of health, behavioural health).
• New surgical/procedural specialties: care team planning and clinical management 
• Anaesthetic considerations, complications: pre and-post procedure considerations
• Caring for special populations: patient needs in the perioperative setting (for example: paediatric to advanced age; developmentally disabled, cognitively impaired; chronic pain; substance use disorder; LGBTQ+, obstetrics).

2. Perianaesthesia Clinical Inquiry 

• Research reports: disseminate new study findings and outcomes recommendations to inform the perianaesthesia community 
• Clinical quality improvement Initiatives: evidence-based implementation projects that enhance efficiency, safety, and overall quality of perianaesthesia care.

3. Perianaesthesia Nurse Development

• Nurse education and clinical practice integration strategies
• Clinical competency validation 
• Simulation training experiences
• Recruitment, retention

4. Empowering Nursing Practice in Diverse Settings 

• Advancing the specialty: investment in nurse education in low-middle income countries can enhance practitioner skills and improve patient safety while supporting the United Nations’ goal for universal access to health care. How have you given voice to advance the specialty and promote the importance of Nurses’ inclusion in global health policy decisions that impact surgical, obstetric, trauma, and anesthesia care team outcomes?  
• Global connections: collaborative efforts that foster an exchange of knowledge, promote cultural understanding, and further connectivity for international growth in the skilled perianaesthesia nursing workforce.
• Environmental sustainability: incorporation of sustainable practices that contribute to environmental preservation and conservation, and/or support long-term health system viability.
• Work-life balance, personal wellness: creative ways used to improve team health 

5. Other perianaesthesia-focused abstracts welcome

If you have queries about your abstract, please email LINK TO PCO address

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