Emergency physicians and clinical abdominal ultrasound in emergency room

Purpose: Abdominal pain is one of the symptoms which most often brings patients to the Emergency Room, being nearly 10% of cases. The delay in diagnosis and negative treatment influences the prognosis. Abdominal ultrasound is a fast, portable, repeatable, cheap and non-invasive method, that can provide abundant information to the emergency physicians. Materials & Methods: Case study of the diagnosis of a splenic infarction using an ultrasound scan performed by the emergency physician. Results: 56 years old male, former drug injecting addict, fully weaned for years, with HIV infection stage C3, with co-HCV infect…