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

NCT05402774 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 207

Last updated 2022-06-02

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Summary

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.

Conditions

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

point-of-care ultrasound

point-of-care ultrasound

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sakarya University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-10-01
Primary Completion
2020-03-01
Completion
2020-03-01

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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