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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Abdominal Pain
• Interventions: Diagnostic Test: point-of-care ultrasound

• Registration Number: NCT05402774
• Lead Sponsor: Sakarya University

Brief 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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-10-01
• Primary Completion: 2020-03-01
• Study Completion: 2020-03-01
• Study First Submitted: 2022-04-18
• Status Verified: 2022-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-05-30
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-05-30
• Study First Posted: 2022-06-02
• Last Update Posted: 2022-06-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 207

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.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
point-of-care ultrasound group	point-of-care ultrasound	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
to measure the effect of POCUS on the Length of stay in emergency department	6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
to measure the effect of POCUS on the average cost of patients, the rate of change in the preliminary diagnosis of the physician, and hospitalization and discharge rate	1 months after discharge or hospitalisation

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Sakarya University Training and Research Hospital; 🇹🇷 Sakarya, Turkey