All SVU Guidelines are reviewed every three years to see if they need to be updated. The SVU Vascular Technology Professional Performance Guidelines represent the minimal essential elements of performance as recommended by SVU.

These 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©. They 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.

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Professional Performance Guidelines

Updated June 2014

Extracranial

• Extracranial Cerebrovascular Duplex Ultrasound Evaluation

Intracranial

• Intracranial Cerebrovascular Evaluation Transcranial Doppler (Non-Imaging) and Transcranial Duplex Imaging (TCDI)
• Transcranial Doppler in Pediatric Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia: (Non-Imaging)

Peripheral Arterial

• Lower Extremity Arterial Duplex Evaluation 
• Upper Extremity Arterial Duplex Evaluation
• Lower Extremity Arterial Segmental Physiologic Evaluation
• Radial Artery Assessment for Coronary Artery Bypass
• Upper Extremity Arterial Segmental Physiologic Evaluation (Arterial, TOS, Cold)

Peripheral Venous

• Upper Extremity Venous Duplex Evaluation
• Upper Extremity Vein Mapping for Creation of a Dialysis Access or Peripheral Vascular Bypass Graft
• Evaluation of Dialysis Access
• Lower Extremity Vein Mapping
• Lower Extremity Venous Duplex Evaluation
• Lower Extremity Venous Insufficiency Evaluation

Visceral

• Screening For Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) 
• Mesenteric/Splanchnic Artery Duplex Imaging
• Abdominal Aortoiliac Duplex Evaluation
• Renal Artery Duplex Imaging

Other

• Quality Assurance Guidelines for Accuracy of Examinations in the Vascular Laboratory

The Vascular Technology Professional Performance Guidelines represent the minimal essential elements of performance as recommended by SVU. They are not designed to replace internally generated, laboratory specific protocols, but to serve as a basis for developing or updating the procedure(s) described below. If you have a comment on a specific guideline, please respond to SVU at svuinfo@svunet.org.

    
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