International Conference on Emergency Medicine 2012

The fourteenth annual International Conference on Emergency Medicine (ICEM) was held in the newly completed and stunningly presented Dublin convention centre from 27–30 June this year.

Assimilating everything from the base and mundane with the exciting and highly unusual aspects of emergency medicine, guests from every inhabited continent shared research, opinion and experiences to further and better pre-hospital healthcare, stimulate debate and ultimately benefit patient outcome worldwide.

A significant presence of remote and disaster emergency medicine was evident at the conference, including a great deal of new research in contemporary disaster-based emergency-care medicine, which aimed to deliver those practices and findings honed in the many large, and small-scale natural disasters that have occurred in the past decade.

An abundance of wilderness and remote pre-hospital care specialists, exhibitors and attendees suggested a growing interest in research and development in this arena of paramedicine but also, due to the many recruitment companies present at the conference, that this is a growing trend within the profession as many established paramedics look to diversify and stimulate their career.