The Accuracy of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Detecting Small Bowel Obstruction in Emergency Department

Table 2

Using the presence of dilated bowels on US to diagnose SBO.

Study	# of Pts	Dilated loops of bowel		Interloops free fluids		Abnormal peristalsis
		Sensitivity	Specificity	Sensitivity	Specificity	Sensitivity	Specificity
Ünlüer et al. [7]	174	94.2%	93.8%	x	x	x	x
Jang et al. [8]	76	90.9%	83.7%	x	x	27.3	97.7%,
Barzegari et al. [9]	113	97.7%	100%	4.5%	88.4%	100%	67.4%