Uzma Mumtaz1, Zainab Zahur2, Muhammad Amjad Chaudhry3, Riaz Ahmed Warraich4. 1. Sciences, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, Islamabad. 2. Department of Radiology, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission General Hospital, Islamabad. 3. Hospital, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, Islamabad. 4. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, King Edward Medical University, Lahore.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To compare the diagnostic accuracy of bedside ultrasound and supine chest radiography for the diagnosis of traumatic pneumothorax. STUDY DESIGN: Analytical study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY: PIMS and PAEC General Hospital, Islamabad, from November 2014 to August 2015. METHODOLOGY: Patients coming to emergency departments of the study centres, who had sustained chest injuries, were inducted. Their portable bedside ultrasound and supine chest radiographs were taken for assessing pneumothorax and subsequently CTchest was done for confirmation as gold standard. RESULTS: Based on CTfindings, sensitivity for ultrasonography and chest radiography was found to be 83.33% and 54.76%, respectively and specificity of 100% for both modalities. CONCLUSION: Ultrasound can be used as a useful and suitable adjunct to CTin trauma patients as it is easily available, non-invasive, bedside, easily examined with no radiation risk.
OBJECTIVE: To compare the diagnostic accuracy of bedside ultrasound and supine chest radiography for the diagnosis of traumatic pneumothorax. STUDY DESIGN: Analytical study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY: PIMS and PAEC General Hospital, Islamabad, from November 2014 to August 2015. METHODOLOGY:Patients coming to emergency departments of the study centres, who had sustained chest injuries, were inducted. Their portable bedside ultrasound and supine chest radiographs were taken for assessing pneumothorax and subsequently CTchest was done for confirmation as gold standard. RESULTS: Based on CTfindings, sensitivity for ultrasonography and chest radiography was found to be 83.33% and 54.76%, respectively and specificity of 100% for both modalities. CONCLUSION: Ultrasound can be used as a useful and suitable adjunct to CTin traumapatients as it is easily available, non-invasive, bedside, easily examined with no radiation risk.
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