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These Guidelines have recently undergone revision by BMUS and
the new document can be found below
GUIDELINES FOR THE SAFE USE OF DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND EQUIPMENT
Prepared by the Safety Group of the British Medical Ultrasound Society. |
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The Fetal
Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP) has now published its final Ultrasound
Standards document. This includes the BMUS Safety Guidelines as an appendix.
Please click
here to view this
document on the FASP website. |
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 Scope and Purpose |
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assist all those who use diagnostic ultrasound equipment for any purpose in
order that they may be able to make informed judgements about ultrasound
safety, and in order to protect patients from excessive exposure. The
Guidelines are based on the best scientific information available at the time
of writing, using advice and evidence from international experts. Further
background information on the safe use of ultrasound may be found in more
extensive texts, including ter Haar and Duck (2000). |
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| Guidelines |
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November 2009
An updated set of Safety Guidelines were approved by BMUS Council and published
in November 2009.
In order to make the Guidelines simpler to understand and easier to use, we
have introduced a short Part 1 designed for those who do not require the
complete document, or who require an overview or ‘refresher’ of the
information.
The longer Part 2 contains the Guidelines in full. The grey boxes show the
rationale for each section. All the recommendations regarding TI/MI and
exposure time have been brought together to make them clearer and easier to
assimilate (or put up on the wall).
The appendix is a set of tables for different single applications, with the
idea that the relevant one can pinned up in the scanning room or on the
machine.
There are some important changes however, in that the idea of recommended
maximum times for different TIs has been extended to non-obstetric
examinations, as the committee feels that the time is right to make
recommendations on a wider range of applications.
We hope that you feel that the revised guidelines make for a more useful
document. Please click on the links below to download the different sections of
the document (or the guidelines in full)
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