Temesgen BeyeneMesfin Nahom2025-08-132025-08-132024-01-05https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/6635Background: The employment by non-cardiologists of Focused Cardiac Ultrasound (FoCUS) to promptly identify the organizational framework of the heart in critically sick patients attracted the first significant amount of public interest in early 90s. It was demonstrated that individuals with potentially life-threatening medical or surgical disorders might benefit from a quick FoCUS conducted by Emergency Physicians (EPs). Objectives: To assess emergency medicine residents’ accuracy of FoCUS interpretation in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital (TASH) and Saint Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC). Methods: A cross-sectional investigation among TASH and SPHMMC attending Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (ECCM) residents. 80 senior residents partook in the study. Data was obtained utilizing Google Forms and cleaned and analyzed using the 27th version of SPSS. Descriptive statistics were used to study the population's sociodemographic and background characteristics. The study lasted for 5 months from August to December 2023 G.C. by using a structured questionnaire. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square and bivariate and multivariate binary logistic regression. Results: This study was able to discover that 38 (47.7%) among the respondents were able to accurately identify FoCUS videos provided to them with an average score of 11 and SD of 2.267. Of the 80 senior residents, 73 (91.3%) were able to properly identify collapsing Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) and 72 (90%) of them identified cardiac standstill which were the most correctly identified pathologies and Regional Wall Motion Abnormality (RWMA) was the least correctly identified by 37 (46.3%). Binary logistic regression was performed for the independent factors over the dependent factor, and third-year residents were 12.434-fold likely to accurately identify FoCUS videos compared to second-year residents. [AOR = 12.434, 95% CI (1.189,129.990)]. Conclusion: This study worked on investigating the accuracy of FoCUS among ECCM residents of AAU and SPHMMC. 38 (47.7%) among the respondents were able to accurately identify FoCUS videos. The commonest identified pathologies were collapsing IVC and cardiac standstill and the least identified was RWMA. The independent factor with the most significant effect on the accuracy of the residents was the year of residency.en-USThe Accuracy of Focused Cardiac UltrasoundThesis