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