Usefulness of Protocolized Point-of-Care Ultrasonography for Patients with Acute Renal Colic Who Visited Emergency Department: A Randomized Controlled Study.

ABSTRACT: Ultrasonography is useful in evaluating patients with renal colic and it has high sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing ureter stones by revealing hydronephrosis. We evaluated the efficacy of point-of-care ultrasonography protocol in managing patients with acute renal colic who visited the emergency department (ED). Between March 2019 and July 2019, patients who visited the ED because of renal colic were randomly assigned by date of visit either to the conventional group (CG), who underwent routine diagnostic work-up without ultrasonography, or to the ultrasonography group (UG), who underwent bedside ultrasonography as an initial diagnostic testing. When hydronephrosis was detected in the UG group, a confirmatory non-contrast abdomen computed tomography scan was promptly performed. Th

SUBMITTER: Kim SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6915595 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature