Accuracy of bedside emergency physician performed ultrasound in diagnosing different causes of acute abdominal pain: a prospective study.

Autor: Hasani SA; Emergency Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS)., Fathi M; Emergency Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS). Electronic address: marziehfathi@yahoo.com., Daadpey M; Emergency Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS)., Zare MA; Emergency Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS)., Tavakoli N; Emergency Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS)., Abbasi S; Emergency Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS).
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Clinical imaging [Clin Imaging] 2015 May-Jun; Vol. 39 (3), pp. 476-9. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Jan 20.
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2015.01.011
Abstrakt: Objective: Abdominal pain is a common complaint in the emergency department and accurate diagnosis of its etiology may affect the patient's outcome.
Method: Patients with abdominal pain underwent ultrasound study first by trained emergency physicians and then by radiologists blinded to emergency physician's results.
Result: Emergency physician who performed bedside ultrasound had 78% diagnostic accuracy. Emergency physicians showed better results in diagnosing some entities (abdominal aortic aneurysm and renal stones) than the others (acute appendicitis, cholelithiasis, and cholecystitis).
Conclusion: Bedside ultrasound can accurately identify the etiology of acute nontraumatic abdominal pain in the hands of emergency physicians.
(Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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