Authors’ response to Comments on “Why do emergency department clinicians miss acute aortic syndrome? A case series and descriptive analysis”


Published: 23 June 2023
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  • Matthew J. Reed Emergency Medicine Research Group Edinburgh (EMERGE), Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh; Acute Care Group, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edi, United Kingdom. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1308-4824
  • Rachel McLatchie Emergency Medicine Research Group Edinburgh (EMERGE), Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  • Sarah Wilson Emergency Department, Wexham Park Hospital, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Slough, United Kingdom. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3964-0809
  • Francoise Ticehurst Emergency Department, Wexham Park Hospital, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Slough, United Kingdom. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9798-5840
  • Kathryn Easterford Emergency Medicine Research Group Edinburgh (EMERGE), Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  • Salma Alawiye Emergency Medicine Research Group Edinburgh (EMERGE), Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0133-2499
  • Alicia Cowan Emergency Medicine Research Group Edinburgh (EMERGE), Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  • Aakash Gupta Emergency Medicine Research Group Edinburgh (EMERGE), Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Dear Editor,

We thank Vercelli et al.1 for their comments on our paper: Why do emergency department clinicians miss acute aortic syndrome? A case series and descriptive analysis.

We fully agree with the authors, that investigating the heart and aorta using POCUS may allow for an earlier diagnosis and therefore more expedient treatment of a patient with acute aortic syndrome (AAS). We would also agree with the authors that POCUS is a point of care test with good specificity for the detection of AAS (i.e., it may be good at ruling in the diagnosis) but has poor sensitivity for the detection of AAS (i.e., it is not good at ruling out the diagnosis).[...]


Vercelli A, Berardi E, Poggiali E. Comments on “Why do emergency department clinicians miss acute aortic syndrome? A case series and descriptive analysis”. Emerg care J 2023;19:11433.

McLatchie R, Wilson S, Reed M, et al. Why do emergency department clinicians miss acute aortic syndrome? A case series and descriptive analysis. Emerg Care J 2023;19:11153. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2023.11153

Reed, M. J., McLatchie, R., Wilson, S., Ticehurst, F., Easterford, K., Alawiye, S., Cowan, A., & Gupta, A. (2023). Authors’ response to <i>Comments on “Why do emergency department clinicians miss acute aortic syndrome? A case series and descriptive analysis”</i>. Emergency Care Journal, 19(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2023.11470

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