Impact of a POCUS-first versus CT-first approach on emergency department length of stay and time to surgical consultation in patients with acute cholecystitis: a retrospective study

Table 3 The length of stay and time to surgical consultation in the point-of-care ultrasound first group and computed-tomography first group

	PoCUS* first group			CT* first group
	Door-to-US* time			Door-to-CT time
	< 60 min	> 60 min	p-value	< 120 min	> 120 min	p-value
ED* length of stay, hrs^†	26.9 (13.0–54.6)^‡	49.3 (21.4–74.4)^§	< 0.001	28.6 (11.8–50.9)^‡	40.6 (17.5–69.5)^§	< 0.001
Time to surgical consultation, hrs	5.7 (4.2–8.5)^a	10.1 (6.7–21.0)^b	< 0.001	5.5 (3.7–7.9)^a	8.6 (5.6–13.5)^b	< 0.001

^*ED emergency department; PoCUS point-of-care ultrasound; US ultrasound; CT computed tomography
^†Presented as median and interquartile ranges (IQRs)
^‡p = 0.736
^§p = 0.115.
^ap = 0.119
^bp = 0.004

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