title: Bedside Ultrasonography: AUseful Tool for Traumatic Pneumothorax.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare the diagnostic accuracy of bedside ultrasound and supine chest radiography for the diagnosis of traumatic pneumothorax.
  
  
  METHODS
  Analytical study.
  
  
  METHODS
  PIMS and PAEC General Hospital, Islamabad, from November 2014 to August 2015.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients coming to emergency departments of the study centres, who had sustained chest injuries, were inducted. Their portable bedside ultrasound and supine chest radiographs were taken for assessing pneumothorax and subsequently CTchest was done for confirmation as gold standard.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Based on CTfindings, sensitivity for ultrasonography and chest radiography was found to be 83.33% and 54.76%, respectively and specificity of 100% for both modalities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ultrasound can be used as a useful and suitable adjunct to CTin trauma patients as it is easily available, non-invasive, bedside, easily examined with no radiation risk.
authors.affiliation: Sciences, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, Islamabad.
authors.forename: Uzma
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Mumtaz
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission General Hospital, Islamabad.
authors.forename: Zainab
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zahur
authors.affiliation: Hospital, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, Islamabad.
authors.forename: Muhammad Amjad
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Chaudhry
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, King Edward Medical University, Lahore.
authors.forename: Riaz Ahmed
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Warraich
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010154:Pakistan; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D000067716:Point-of-Care Testing; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods*