Acute aortic syndrome and bedside ultrasonography in emergency department

Purpose: Aortic dissection is relatively rare, but may occur as a catastrophic condition for the patient's prognosis, so an early diagnosis and treatment is crucial to their survival. We used two systems of classification of this pathology, being the most used sorting Stanford: type A dissection, if it affects the ascending aorta; type B and all other types of dissection. Material and methods: We studied the diagnosis of an aortic dissection type B of Stanford by a bedside ultrasound performed by emergency physician. We have an ultrasound-Sonosite M-Turbo, P21 probe of between 1 and 5 MHz, with and echocardiogra…