International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM)

The most famous ICU conference (other than SMACC) has been on this week.

Li Huey Tan, an intensivist currently working at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne was there feeding us live reports as a mini-blog to give those of us who couldn't make it a bit of a taster...

Click "Read more" to hear about day 2.

International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM)

The most famous (other than SMACC) ICU conference in the world is underway.

Li Huey Tan, an intensivist currently working at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne is there at the moment and sending over a mini-blog to give those of us who couldn't make it a bit of a taster...

Click "Read more" to hear about day 1.

The build up was unprecedented. The conference was novel. And the conversation continues.

Just in case you've had your head under a rock, I'm talking about SMACC 2013.

SMACC stands for Social Media and Critical Care and it is the title of a new kind of critical care conference that was held at the start of this week (March 11th - 12th), at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. It was an experiment that was born out of a collaborative effort between a group of emergency, intensive care and prehospital medicine practitioners as a way to delivier a novel conference experience.

If you are signed up and getting ready to attend the Social Media and Critical Care conference in 2 weeks, watch your e-mail inbox. There's an invite to download the conference app on its way to you today. The app will let you: