Articles: emergency-department.
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Acute stroke requires accurate imaging to ensure appropriate treatment decisions and favorable clinical outcomes. Computed tomography has long been used as an exclusive imaging technique to assess intracerebral hemorrhage, owing to its rapid scanning time and widespread availability. Several recent studies have reported the reliable detection of hyperacute hemorrhage using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). ⋯ Clinicians in the Department of Neurological Emergency should be familiar with imaging findings of hyperacute hemorrhage on multiple MRI sequences.
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Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is a quick, useful, noninvasive, and inexpensive diagnostic tool used for the diagnosis of trauma, abdominal pain, dyspnea, and chest pain in the emergency department (ED). However, the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound in the ED may be different from those reported in previous studies owing to the setting and time constraints in ED. ⋯ The use of ultrasound for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in the ED showed that ultrasound has high overall sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. however, high heterogeneity among the included studies was observed.