Table 4 Diagnostic performance of lung ultrasound for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in all patients and in patients without and with pleuritic chest pain

All patients 872

76

(72.1–79.8)

57%

(51–62.9)

94.9%

(92.9–96.6)

84.1%

(78.1–89)

82.4%

(79.4–85.2)

11.3

(7.83–16.20)

0.45

(0.40–0.52)

No pleuritic cp 655

72.2

(67.6–76.7)

49.5%

(42.7–56.4)

94.8%

(92.3–97.7)

82.2%

(74.5–88.4)

79.5%

(75.8–82.8)

9.50

(6.24–14.46)

0.53

(0.47–0.61)

Pleuritic cp 217

88.5

(82.6–94.4)

81.5%

(70–90.1)

95.4%

(90.7–98.1)

88.3%

(77.4–95.2)

92.4%

(87–96)

17.71

(8.51–36.84)

0.19

(0.11–0.31)

Scan in the painful area

156*

87.1

(79.7–94.4)

78.7%

(64.3–89.3)

95.4%

(89.6–98.5)

88.1%

(75.6–99.6)

91.2%

(85.7–94.7)

17.16

(7.2–40.92)

0.22

(0.13–0.39)