Fig. 1

Trial profile (appended). *The 7 randomized patients we lost due to loss of follow up are assessed to be missing at random and were excluded from all analyses as all outcomes were to be calculated by statistic approximation. They were lost as follows: 4 were caused by investigators in two hospitals who withdrew their consent to participation due to too busy working hours in the ED, in 2 the medical records were lost in the transition to a new electronic medical record system, and in 1 an unidentifiable personal ID number was written in the database. Abbreviations: ED (emergency department). PoCUS (Point-of-care ultrasound)