Publication Name	World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Manuscript ID	125637
DOI	10.4240/wjgs.125637
Country	Türkiye

Category	Emergency Medicine
Manuscript Type	Review
Article Title	Point-of-care ultrasound in the acute abdomen and gastrointestinal emergencies: An evidence-based guide and the case for standardisation
Manuscript Source	Invited Manuscript
All Author List	Faruk Danış and Emre Kudu
Funding Agency and Grant Number
Corresponding Author	Emre Kudu, Associate Professor, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Marmara University School of Medicine, Maltepe Başıbüyük Yolu Sok. No. 9/1 Maltepe, İstanbul 34899, Türkiye. ekudu@marmara.edu.tr
Key Words	Point-of-care ultrasound; Acute abdomen; Small bowel obstruction; Gastric ultrasound; Cholecystitis; Emergency medicine; Diagnostic accuracy; Standardization
Core Tip	This review integrates emergency point-of-care ultrasound for small-bowel obstruction, gastric aspiration risk, non-traumatic free fluid and biliary disease into one symptom-based, pretest-probability-driven algorithm, giving numeric thresholds, likelihood ratios and an explicit action for every result, including non-diagnostic scans. The algorithm has not been prospectively validated. Assembling the evidence also shows that dispersion across operators, thresholds and reference standards, together with absent reliability data for several core measurements, makes standardisation rather than further accuracy estimation the most likely rate-limiting step, a proposition this review frames as testable.
Citation	Danış F, Kudu E. Point-of-care ultrasound in the acute abdomen and gastrointestinal emergencies: An evidence-based guide and the case for standardisation. World J Gastrointest Surg 2026; In press DOI: https://doi.org/10.4240/wjgs.125637
PDF	125637-in-press.pdf

Received	2026-07-14 09:01
Peer-Review Started	2026-07-14 09:02
First Decision by Editorial Office Director
Return for Revision	2026-08-06 06:34
Revised	2026-08-12 15:08
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Second Decision by Editor	2026-10-08 07:09
Second Decision by Editor-in-Chief
Final Decision by Editorial Office Director	2026-10-08 09:51
Articles in Press	2026-10-08 09:51
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