Background: When used with standard diagnostic testing, point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) might improve the proportion of patients admitted with chest pain (CP) who are correctly diagnosed, decrease length of stay (LOS) in emergency department (ED) and costs. We therefore assessed POCUS for the heart, lungs, aortic, hepatobiliary and deep vein in addition to the usual initial diagnostic testing in this patient population. Methods: In a prospective, randomised-controlled, parallel-group trial in the ED at Sakarya University Training and Research Hospital, Turkey, patients (≥18 years) with CP were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to a standard diagnostic strategy (control group) or to standard diagnostic strategy supplemented with POCUS (POCUS group).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
208
Point-of-care Ultrasonography is an imaging method performed with ultrasound aid to facilitate rapid diagnosis and interventions during emergency intervention.
Sakarya University Training and Research Hospital
Sakarya, Turkey (Türkiye)
Duration of hospitalization or discharge
Time frame: 6 months
Average costs during the diagnosis of patients.
Time frame: 6 months
The rate of change in the preliminary diagnosis of physician
Time frame: 6 months
The Hospitalization rate
Time frame: 6 months
The discharge rate
Time frame: 6 months
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