SVU Professional Performance Guidelines and Position Papers

This month SVU's Professional Performance Guidelines Subcommittee, chaired by Joanne Drago, LPN RVT FSVU, posted four new Guidelines to the SVU website that are updated versions of old Guidelines first developed in 2006. All SVU Guidelines are reviewed every three years to see if they need to be updated. These SVU 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) at your vascular laboratory.

Links to the 20 SVU Guidelines are posted below.

Professional Performance Guidelines

• Upper Extremity Vein Mapping for Peripheral Arterial Bypass Graft or Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) (8/10/09)
• Upper Extremity Vein Mapping for Placement of a Dialysis Access (8/10/09)
• Renal Artery Duplex Imaging (8/10/09)
• Lower Extremity Arterial Duplex Evaluation (8/10/09)
• Radial Artery Assessment for Coronary Artery Bypass (revised 5/28/09)
• Intracranial Cerebrovascular Evaluation: Transcranial Doppler (Non-Imaging) (revised 4/07/09)
• Lower Extremity Arterial Segmental Physiologic Evaluation (revised 4/06/09)
• Stress Testing for Cold Sensitivity (revised 4/06/09)
• Evaluation of Dialysis Access (revised 4/06/09)
• Upper Extremity Arterial Duplex Evaluation (revised 10/30/08)
• Lower Extremity Vein Mapping (revised 10/30/08)
• Abdominal Aortic Iliac Duplex Evaluation (revised (10/31/08)
• Lower Extremity Venous Duplex Evaluation (revised 6/01/08 )
• Extracranial Cerebrovascular Duplex Ultrasound Evaluation (revised 6/01/08)
• Upper Extremity Arterial Segmental Physiologic Evaluation (09/16/07)
• Lower Extremity Venous Insufficiency Evaluation (09/16/07)
• Physiologic Evaluation for Thoracic Outlet Compression Syndrome (08/31/07)
• Screening For Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) (02/05/07)
• Mesenteric/Splanchnic Artery Duplex Imaging (revised 01/04/07)
• Upper Extremity Venous Duplex Evaluation (revised 01/04/07)s

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 extend and refine those general Standards, which reflect behavior and performance levels expected in clinical practice, to better reflect the day-to-day practice of vascular technology.

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 (steveh@svunet.org)

More guidelines will be added as they are available. Please check back for the latest guidelines.