"The provision of proper opportune care to patients visiting the emergency department is greatly dependent on the appropriate interpretation of requested radiographs by the emergency physician.  Several studies have been conducted to evaluate the capabilities of non-radiologist to interpret different imaging modalities. These were undertaken to decide whether it may be proper for them to independently report radiological studies and thus help to meet the rising need for on-call...

"A prospective chart Audit of patients’ undergone Brain Cmputed Tomography during the months April- November 2014 was done. Six hundred and fifty five charts were analyzed. The population was mixed of Adults and Children. Radiology reports were dictated by a certified radiology consultant or an assistant consultant. Data were entered and analyzed using statistical software SPSS version 21.0. By considering both, radiologist report and Emergency physician impression, inter-rater reliability...

" Six hundred and fifty five Brain Computed Tomography images were interpreted. Five hundreds and ninety eight (91.3%) case were concordant with the radiologist report, whereas 57 (8.7%) were discordant due to missed lesion by the emergency physician. 17.5 % of those missed lesions were fatal (e.g. Acute ischemia, Acute hemorrhage, Multiple myeloma, pituitary mass). The remaining 82.5% were non-fatal lesions (e.g. subgaleal hematoma, small vessel disease). Fatal lesions are those that will...

" A couple of studies have scrutinized the disagreement rates between radiologist and emergency doctors in interpreting trauma radiographs, revealing misreporting rates in the region of 1-3% . [1,2,3] With regards to cranial CT, previous studies have evaluated the clinically significant non-concordance rates between the provisional reports of emergency doctors and radiologist showing these to be 13.3-24 % [4,5] This study has audited the precision of emergency physician independent...

Fahad Al Badr, Consultant Neuroradiologist, Head of Radiology Department, King Khalid University Hospital Khaled Almohaimede, Medical student,College of Medicine King Saud University Khalid Almasar, Radiology resident, King Khalid University Hospital Zohair Al-Aseri, Consultant critical care and Emergency Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital

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