Guidelines For Professional Working Standards: Ultrasound Practice

Guidelines For Professional Working Standards: Ultrasound Practice

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Published: 2008-10-01

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Guidelines For Professional Working Standards: Ultrasound Practice

Introduction (590 Words)

Section 1: General guidelines (4207 Words)

1.1 Safety Of Medical Ultrasound

1.2 Ultrasound Equipment And Quality Assurance Testing

1.3 Ultrasound Examination Procedures

1.4 Communication

Additional Reading

1.5 Informed Consent For Ultrasound Examination

Additional Reading

1.6 Intimate Examinations

Additional Reading

1.7 Ergonomic Practice

Prevention and Management of Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders

Managing the Obese Patient

Additional Reading

1.8 Guidance On Ultrasound Examination Timings

Additional Reading

Table 1. Recommended Examination Timings

1.9 Medico-Legal Issues

1.10 Ultrasound Screening Procedures

Pregnant Women Declining Antenatal Ultrasound Screening

Section 2: Examination specific guidelines (5701 Words)

2.1 Guidelines Relevant To Breast Examinations

Additional Reading

2.2 Guidelines Relevant To General Medical Examinations

Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS)

Additional Reading

2.3 Guidelines Relevant To Gynaecological Examinations

Assisted Reproductive Techniques

Hystero-Contrast-Sonography (HyCoSy)

Prevention of Shock

2.4 Guidelines relevant to Musculo-skeletal examinations

2.5 Guidelines relevant to obstetric examinations

Image Acquisition

Maternal Obesity

Establishing Gestational Age (GA)

Assigning Gestational Age after 12 Weeks 6 Days

Examinations in the First Trimester

Examinations in the Second Trimester

• Fetal Anomaly Screening

Examinations in the Third Trimester

• Fetal Growth, Fetal Well Being or Placental Localisation

Additional Reading

2.6 Guidelines Relevant To Paediatric And Neonatal Ultrasound Examinations

Additional Reading

2.7 Guidelines Relevant To The Ultrasound Examination Of Superficial Structures

For each examination the sonographer should:

2.8 Guidelines Relevant To Vascular Ultrasound Examinations

Section 3: Reporting (5703 Words)

3.1 Guidelines for report writing

General Comments

Clinical Content

Report Proforma/Worksheet

Guidance for Completing Patient Notes / Hospital Records

Examples of Examination specific reporting

3.2 Breast Ultrasound

Abnormal Ultrasound Appearances

3.3 General Medical Ultrasound

3.4 Gynaecological Ultrasound

3.5 Musculo-Skeletal Ultrasound

3.6 Obstetric Ultrasound

First Trimester - Early Pregnancy

First Trimester - Dating

First Trimester - Nuchal Translucency Screening

Second Trimester

Third Trimester

3.7 Paediatric And Neonatal Ultrasound

3.8 Superficial Ultrasound

3.9 Vascular Ultrasound

Carotid Ultrasound

Table 15. Diagnostic Criteria

Lower/Upper Limb/Graft Arterial Ultrasound

Ultrasound Investigation for Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)

Ultrasound Investigation for Varicose Vein

Vein Marking for Harvesting or Other Pre-Surgery Ultrasound

Section 4: Practice guidelines (1950 Words)

4.1 Clinical Governance

4.2 Acquisition, Archiving And Use Of Ultrasound Data

Image Recording

Additional Reading

4.3 Use Of Mobile Telephones And Other Electronic Devices In The Ultrasound Department

Additional Reading

4.4 Use Of Patient, Staff And Hospital Data For Education And Research

Additional Reading

4.5 Guidelines For The Scanning Of Persons For Non-Clinical Purposes

Points of Good Practice

Additional Reading

4.6 Guidelines Relevant To Setting Up A Sonographer-Led Interventional Ultrasound Service

Additional Reading

Section 5: Professional guidelines (846 Words)

5.1 Continuing Profesional Development (CPD)

Additional Reading

5.2 Code Of Profesional Conduct For Sonographers

The Code of Practice for Sonographers

Appendix (15 Words)

Obstetric reporting proformas