Kidney Ultrasound Emergency Medicine. Found that in the diagnosis of renal calculus the sensitivity of renal ultrasound alone was 93 and specificity 83. A landmark study published in 2014 by the new england journal of medicine conducted at 15 various emergency departments evaluated the accuracy of point of care ultrasound pocus versus computed tomography ct scan as the initial imaging method for patients with suspected kidney stones.
This has been studied formally in both emergency medicine and perinatology and in both cases there were no legal actions related to misdiagnosis. In our 20 years of experience with point of care ultrasound by nephrologists at this institution entailing over 20 000 studies this issue has not arisen once. In the emergency department bedside renal ultrasound has allowed the physician to quickly and accurately assess the kidneys and the bladder for obstruction.
Furthermore patients with a normal renal ultrasound are at low risk for hospitalization or urologic intervention 1 3.
Dr beck is an assistant professor. In our 20 years of experience with point of care ultrasound by nephrologists at this institution entailing over 20 000 studies this issue has not arisen once. To determine the sensitivity and specificity of limited emergency ultrasonography of the kidney in diagnosing renal colic methods. Dr beck is an assistant professor.