Point of Care Ultrasound for Evaluation of Suspected Appendicitis in the Emergency Department

Completed

Conditions studied: Acute Appendicitis

In brief

The primary purpose of this study is to determine the accuracy of ultrasound (US) in diagnosing appendicitis in emergency department (ED) patients, as compared to the criterion standards of computed tomography, operative reports, or discharge diagnosis. The secondary purposes of the study include evaluation of the effect of ultrasound for appendicitis on the patient length of stay in the emergency department, the diagnostic utility of specific ultrasound findings in the diagnosis of appendicitis, the role of body mass index (BMI) in the utility of ultrasound for appendicitis and relation of ultrasound findings to the Alvarado score. The study will also examine the inter-rater agreement between point-of- care sonographers' interpretation and blinded reviewers' interpretation of the ultrasound images.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02731924

Run by

WellSpan Health

People needed

262

Starts

2014-05-01

Expected to finish

2021-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2021-04-08

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• RLQ pain with clinical suspicion for acute appendicitis

You may not qualify if…

• History of appendectomy
• Imaging prior to ED ultrasound performed to evaluate the RLQ
• Patients who are decisionally impaired or cannot provide consent

Where it is running

• Wellspan Health York Hospital — York, Pennsylvania, United States

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