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Professional Performance Guidelines

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The SVU Vascular Technology Professional Performance Guidelines represent the minimal essential elements of performance as recommended by SVU.  The Guidelines are reviewed every three years by the Professional Performance Guidelines Review Committee, with proposed changes sent out to the SVU Membership for comment before final adoption.

NOTE: The SVU Board of Directors has approved several updates for the Professional Performance Guidelines (PPGs) in 2019.  They have been updated for formatting consistency, language clarity, and inclusion of exam times.

The Guidelines are an adjunct to SVU’s Scope of Practice for the Diagnostic Ultrasound Professional© and the Clinical Practice Standards for the Diagnostic Ultrasound Professional©.   The Guidelines are not designed to replace internally generated, laboratory specific protocols, but to serve as a basis for developing or updating the procedure(s) at your vascular laboratory.


If you have a comment on a specific guideline, please respond to SVU at svuinfo@svu.org.

The Professional Performance Guidelines are also available through the iSVU Mobile Guidelines App.

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Extracranial

1. Extracranial Cerebrovascular Duplex Ultrasound Evaluation (Updated 2019)

Intracranial

2. Intracranial Cerebrovascular Evaluation Transcranial Doppler (Non-Imaging) and Transcranial Duplex Imaging (TCDI) (Updated 2019)

3. Transcranial Doppler in Pediatric Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia: (Non-Imaging) (Updated 2019)

Peripheral Arterial

4. Lower Extremity Arterial Duplex Evaluation (Updated 2019)

5. Upper Extremity Arterial Duplex Evaluation (Updated 2019)

6. Lower Extremity Arterial Segmental Physiologic Evaluation (Updated 2019)

7. Radial Artery Assessment for Coronary Artery Bypass (Updated 2019)

8. Upper Extremity Arterial Segmental Physiologic Evaluation (Arterial, TOS, Cold) (Updated 2019)

Peripheral Venous

9. Upper Extremity Venous Duplex Evaluation (Updated 2019)

10. Upper Extremity Vein Mapping for Creation of a Dialysis Access or Peripheral Vascular Bypass Graft (Updated 2019)

11. Evaluation of Hemodialysis Access (Updated 2019)

12. Lower Extremity Vein Mapping (Updated 2019)

13. Lower Extremity Venous Duplex Evaluation (Updated 2019)

14. Lower Extremity Venous Insufficiency Evaluation (Updated 2019)

Visceral

15. Screening For Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) (Updated 2019)

16. Mesenteric/Splanchnic Artery Duplex Imaging (Updated 2019)

17. Abdominal Aortoiliac Duplex Evaluation (Updated 2019)

18. Renal Artery Duplex Imaging (Updated 2019)

Other

19. Quality Assurance Guidelines for Accuracy of Examinations in the Vascular Laboratory (Updated 2018)

20. Transabdominal Pelvic Venous Duplex Evaluation (Updated 2019)

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