ESA Dräger Prize in Intensive Care Medicine

The European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) is pleased to announce that for the second time, in 2008, an annual prize in intensive care medicine will be awarded, sponsored by Dräger.
Full guidelines can be found below.

Guidelines for ESA Dräger Prize in Intensive Care Medicine

  1. An annual prize of €10,000 will be awarded to an anaesthesia or intensive care department (not an individual) in Europe. The prize is for a clinical, peer-reviewed publication or a laboratory peer-reviewed publication of significant clinical relevance on an intensive care topic published in the previous calendar year, e.g. award in 2007 for a paper published in 2006.  The prize will be advertised on the ESA website, and regularly in the EJA and ESA Newsletter.
  2. Applications are to be made by the authors of suitable papers.  One of the applicants must be an active member of the ESA when applying for the prize.
  3. A single side of double-spaced A4 paper should accompany submission of a copy of the article, detailing why the authors think they should be considered for the prize.
  4. The deadline for submissions each year will be March 1st.
  5. The submissions will be reviewed by an ESA committee established specifically for this purpose (see below).  The committee will classify the submissions as Eligible or Ineligible. A short-list will be drawn up from the Eligible applications.
  6. Two external reviewers, selected by the committee, will be asked to assess all short-listed applications, using a predesigned form.
  7. The ESA committee supervising the running of the award and making the final decision shall consist of:  the Chairman of the SPC; two active ESA members who have an interest in intensive care, appointed by the Chairman of the SPC; the chairman of subcommittee 12 of the SPC (intensive therapy); and another member of subcommittee 12, nominated by the chairman of subcommittee 12 and approved by the Chairman of the SPC. The committee will be chaired by the Chair of the SPC.  No committee member, or any of their department, can apply for the prize.  At least two members of the committee will be replaced each year.  The Chair of the SPC will chair this committee while he/she remains in office. Representation on the committee from around Europe is preferable.  No more than two committee members will be from the same country.
  8. No paper which is co-authored by employees of Dräger will be considered.  Any financial support from Dräger or any other source for the research must be detailed in the application.

In the year the grant is awarded, the winner receives free registration to the Euroanaesthesia meeting to accept the prize during the Awards Ceremony.

Please send your applications via e-mail to the ESA Dräger Prize Administrator.



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