Abdominal Pain Management and Point-of-care Ultrasound in the Emergency Department

Sakarya University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Abdominal Pain

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: point-of-care ultrasound

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05402774

16214662/050.01.04/152

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: Abdominal pain is one of the most common reasons for admission to the emergency department (ED). This study aimed to investigate the effect of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) performed during the initial evaluation phase of patients who presented to the ED with abdominal pain on diagnostic processes, length of stay (LOS) in ED, and hospitalization and healthcare costs.

Methodology: This prospective, randomized, controlled, parallel group study was conducted with patients who presented to the Sakarya Education Research Hospital ED with abdominal pain from October 2019 to March 2020. Patients were divided randomly into two groups: control group where standard diagnostic strategies were applied and the POCUS group where POCUS was performed together with standard diagnostic strategies. All data were analyzed using IBM SPSS 21.

Enrollment: 207 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age >18 years
• Patients who presented to the ED with abdominal pain
• Nontraumatic patients

Exclusion criteria

• permanent mental disability,
• age <18 years,
• abdominal trauma within the last 24 hours,
• pregnancy, morbid obesity, repeated admissions,
• referral from an external center to the ED,
• missing patient information.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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207 participants in 2 patient groups

point-of-care ultrasound group

Other group

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: point-of-care ultrasound

Control group

No Intervention group