General Instructions

• Submission of scientific papers that have already been published in indexed journals is not allowed. However, papers that are not yet submitted or currently under review are eligible for submission.
• The submitting author must complete and submit a disclosure form for potential conflict of interest. A conflict of interest may exist when an author (or author's institution or employer) has financial or personal relationships or affiliations that could influence (or bias) the author's decisions, work, or abstract. The ICMJE Uniform Disclosure Form for Potential Conflict of Interest (www.icmje.org/conflicts-of-interest/) will be used. Your submission will not be considered final until disclosure information is complete.
• The submitting author must confirm that the submitted research was approved by the author's affiliated institution's institutional review board (IRB). Abstracts that involve human studies must confirm that informed consent was obtained from each subject and/or legal guardian, or that waiver of consent was granted by the IRB.
• The KSA reserves the right to withdraw an abstract at any time.

Online Abstract Submission

• All abstracts must be written in English.
• The KSA will not edit abstracts. Carefully review your abstract for grammar and syntax prior to submission.
• Research
  • The abstract title is limited to 300 letters (excluding spaces).
  • Should consist of four sections: Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusion.
    The Background section should clearly state the study hypothesis, and the Methods and Results should be written in sufficient detail to support the conclusions.
  • The abstract text is limited to 3,400 letters (excluding spaces).
  • Up to two references (refer to the submission guidelines of the KJA) are allowed, limited to a total of 500 characters.
  • Please do not include the abstract title and name of the authors in the main text.
• Case report
  • The text should include Introduction, Case report, and Conclusion, and is limited to 3,400 letters (excluding spaces).
• Up to two figures or tables are allowed for each abstract.
• You can check the number of characters while you are entering your abstract. When the character count limit is exceeded, contents will be automatically deleted as much as the number of characters exceeded.

Abstract Competition Information

• Nominees of the Abstract Award will be notified by the KSA.
• Each nominee will give a presentation in English followed by Q&A and discussion of abstract as below:
  • 10 minutes of presentation + 5 minutes of Q&A
• The presenter should submit a presentation slide deck in English.
  (Please refer to the ‘Abstract Presentation File Submission Guideline’ on the below for more details)
• Please upload your presentation file by Oct 20 (Sun).
• Every presenting author of the abstract must be registered by the date of Sep 30 (Mon).
• If the registration and the payment are not done appropriately by the date, the abstract will be withdrawn.
• The time and place of the presentation will be announced by the Secretariat in September.
• More detailed instruction will be available in September.

Abstract Presentation & E-Poster Session Information

• Each presenter will give a presentation in English followed by Q&A and discussion of abstract as below:
  • 9 minutes of presentation + 5 minutes of Q&A
• The presenter should submit a presentation slide deck in English.
  (Please refer to the ‘Abstract Presentation File Submission Guideline’ on the below for more details)
• Please upload your presentation file by Oct 20 (Sun).
• Every presenting author of the abstract must be registered by the date of Sep 30 (Mon).
• If the registration and the payment are not done appropriately by the date, the abstract will be withdrawn.
• The time and place of the presentation will be announced by the Secretariat in September.
• More detailed instruction will be available in September.

Abstract Presentation File Submission Guideline

● Abstract Presentation File Submission  Go Submit

• The presenter should prepare a “Presentation File” and directly submit the file on the KoreAnesthesia 2019 website.
• The file can be submitted on ‘My Page’-’Abstract Submission’-’Abstract Presentation File Submission’
• Presentation file submitted in ways other than through the online system will not be accepted.
• Presentation file must be submitted as a PDF or MS Office PowerPoint (PPT) file.
• The presenter should download and use official presentation template file from the below.

Abstract Competition & Abstract Presentation (4:3 ratio)	Download template (Abstract Competition & Presentation)
E-Poster Presentation (16:9 ratio)	Download template (E-poster Presentation)

• The presentation file has to be saved in the name as follows
  (Individual presentation code can be found in the abstract presentation instruction e-mail)
  : ‘Presentation Code_Abstract Number’ / ex) AC-01_2019-0001
• Secretariat of KoreAnethesia 2019 DOES NOT modify or update the presentation file to avoid any fairness issue.
• Please bring the presentation file on the USB drive on-site at the congress.
• More detailed instruction will be available on September.

● Equipment in the Session Room

• Session rooms will be equipped with a computer running Windows OS (not Mac OS), projector and microphone.
• Podiums will be equipped with a monitor, mouse and a smart pointer (No keyboard).
• We DO NOT recommend using your own laptop computer to avoid problems with computer-projector compatibility.

● E-Poster Session Information

• Four presenters will proceed presentation simultaneously in one session.
• Attendees of each session will listen to the presentation with a wireless receiver.
• Wireless receivers will be provided at the on-site table.
  - Attendees get to choose a presentation which they would like to hear by adjusting the wireless receiver channel.