Evaluating Acute Testicular Pain Using Point-of-Care Hand-Held Doppler in the Emergency Department: A Prospective Pilot Study

Conclusion The diagnostic performance of HHD by the ED physicians was almost equal to that of radiologists in ruling out testicular torsion. HHD can be used as a first-line triaging tool by the ED physician to rule out torsion of testis in patients presenting with acute testicular pain. We conclude that patients with testicular pain with a negative HHD for torsion testis can be safely discharged from the emergency department.PMID:34650873 | PMC:PMC8487873 | DOI:10.7759/cureus.17699

Source: Pain Physician - October 15, 2021 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Jagannath Hanumanthappa Vamanjore A Naushad Osama Mohammed Ashok Kumar Ariboyina Suresh Babu Chellapandian Shoib Khan Mat Khan Source Type: research