ASUM

Policies and Statements

	Statements Relating to Ultrasound Safety
	A1	Statement On The Safety Of Ultrasound in Grey Scale Imaging In Obstetrics
	A2	Statement On Doppler Ultrasound
	A3	Safety Statement On Continuous Wave Doppler Fetal Monitoring
	A4	Safety Statement On Thermal Biological Effects
	A5	Safety Statement On Acoustic Output And Equipment Output Display
	A6	Safety Statement On Acoustic Streaming
	A7	Safety Statement On Ultrasound Contrast Agents

	Provision of Diagnostic Ultrasound Services
	B1	Policy on Diagnostic Ultrasound Services
	B2	Guidelines For Disinfection Of Intracavitary Transducers
	B3	Policy on Providing Ultrasound images of the Fetus to Prospective Parent During an Ultrasound Examination
	B4	Scanning of Live subjects for Teaching Purposes During ASUM Meetings
	B5	Policy on Scanning of Live Models by Technical Exhibitors During ASUM Meetings
	B6	Consent to Ultrasound Scanning for Teaching Purposes
	B7	Guidelines for the Operation of Vascular Ultrasound Practices
	B8	Statement on the Use of Ultrasound by Medical Practitioners

	Sonographers
	C1	Policy on Sonographer Training
	C2	The Role of the Sonographer
	C3	Policy on Vaginal scanning by Sonographers
	C5	Supervision of Student Sonographers
	C6	Guidelines For Reducing Injuries To Sonographers/Sonologists

	Clinical Protocols
	D1	Guidelines for Standards of Practice in Paediatric Echocardiography (SPPE)
	D2	Guidelines for the Mid Trimester Obstetric Scan
	D3	This has been incorporated into D7 on March 2001
	D4	Breast Examination and Reporting
	D5	Guidelines for Abdominal Scanning
	D6	Statement on the Use of Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Development Hip Dysplasia and Dislocation
	D7	Statement on Normal Ultrasound Fetal Measurements
	D8	Guidelines for the Performance of a Gynaecological Scan
	D9	Deleted - 31 January 2008
	D10	Guidelines for the Performance of Scrotal Ultrasound
	D11	Guidelines for the Performance of First Trimester Ultrasound (Updated) 9/6/05)
	D12	Guidelines for the Performance of Third Trimester Ultrasound
	D13	Guidelines for Neurosonography in Infants
	D14	Colour Duplex Doppler Ultrasound - Extracranial Carotid Artery Disease
	D15	Peripheral Arterial Ultrasound
	D16	Intracranial Cerebrovascular Ultrasound
	D17	Extracranial Cerebrovascular Ultrasound
	D18	Penile Doppler Ultrasound
	D19	Visceral Vascular Testing Using Ultrasound
	D20	Peripheral Venous Ultrasound

	Administration
	E3	ASUM Research and Grants Policy
	E4	Education Protocol: Competences Required of Cardiac Sonographers Who Practice Adult Transthoracic Cardiac Ultrasound Examinations

	Non-diagnostic applications
	F1	Statement on the appropriate use of diagnostic ultrasound equipment for non-medical entertainment ultrasound