Guidance Pages

Guidelines for Professional Ultrasound Practice

 

2025

Postnatal Ultrasound referrals for follow-up of Antenatally Detected Renal Pelvic Dilatation January 2025

Ultrasound gel: good infection prevention practice, January 2025

Transvaginal ultrasound examinations – guidance for practitioner, January 2025

2024

Guidelines for the interpretation and reporting of diagnostic US scanning in STMs, September 2024

BMUS Paediatric Neck Lump Guideline, September 2024

Recruiting international sonographers and those without a CASE accredited award, September 2024

Recruitment of sonographers without a CASE accredited award: Guidance for employers, September 2024

Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance Minimum Standards, June 2024

Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Delivering Quality Ultrasound Surveillance, June 2024

2023

Guidelines for professional diagnostic ultrasound practice in medical aesthetics, September 2023

  1. Guidelines for the administration of Ultrasound Guided Musculoskeletal Injections, May 2023
    1. Appendix 1 Referral Criteria for Ultrasound Guided Injections
    2. Appendix 2 Examples of Pre Injection Check Lists
    3. Appendix 3 Example of a Competency Assessment Form
    4. Appendix 4 Feedback and Audit
    5. Appendix 5 Written Consent
    6. Appendix 6 Patient Information

2022

Small Animal Veterinary Guidelines for Professional Ultrasound Practice, December 2022

Professional Guidance for Fetal Growth Scans Performed after 23 weeks of Gestation, January 2022

2021

Guidance for Optimising Practitioner and Patient Safety in Ultrasound Departments, April 2021

Neck Standards and Competencies, September 2021

BMUS Giant Cell Arteritis Guidance, November 2021

BMUS Recommended Audit Tool, Revised November 2021

Justification of Referrals in Primary Care, Revised October 2021

Incidental Findings on General Medical Ultrasound Examinations: Management and Diagnostic Pathways Guidance, 2021

2020

COVID-19 Lung Ultrasound Top Tips Poster, April 2020

Ultrasound Transducer Decontamination, March 2020

2017 

Mystery shoppers – A quality review process in radiology, December 2017