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.

Professional Performance Guidelines

Extracranial

• Extracranial Cerebrovascular Duplex Ultrasound Evaluation (revised 06/11)

Intracranial

• Intracranial Cerebrovascular Evaluation Transcranial Doppler (Non-Imaging) and Transcranial Duplex Imaging (TCDI) (04/11/12) Member Only
• Transcranial Doppler in Pediatric Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia: (Non-Imaging) (04/11/12) Member Only

Periperal Arterial

• Lower Extremity Arterial Duplex Evaluation (8/10/12) Member Only
• Upper Extremity Arterial Duplex Evaluation (revised 11/11)
• Lower Extremity Arterial Segmental Physiologic Evaluation (04/11/12) Member Only
• Radial Artery Assessment for Coronary Artery Bypass (04/11/12) Member Only
• Upper Extremity Arterial Segmental Physiologic Evaluation (Arterial, TOS, Cold) (revised 12/22/11)

Peripheral Venous

• New! Upper Extremity Venous Duplex Evaluation (2/5/13) Member Only
• Upper Extremity Vein Mapping for Creation of a Dialysis Access or Peripheral Vascular Bypass Graft (8/10/12) Member Only
• Evaluation of Dialysis Access (04/11/12) Member Only
• Lower Extremity Vein Mapping (revised 11/11)
• Lower Extremity Venous Duplex Evaluation (revised 06/11)
• New! Lower Extremity Venous Insufficiency Evaluation (revised 10/10/13) Member Only

Visceral

• New! Screening For Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) (2/5/13) Member Only
• New! Mesenteric/Splanchnic Artery Duplex Imaging (2/5/13) Member Only
• Abdominal Aortoiliac Duplex Evaluation (revised 11/11)
• Renal Artery Duplex Imaging (11/15/12) Member Only

Other

• Quality Assurance Guidelines for Accuracy of Examinations in the Vascular Laboratory (3/13/12) Member Only

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 the SVU Executive Director Thomas Stefaniak, MBA, CAE.
    
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