Sonography Department Safety Guidelines During COVID-19

Department Guidelines/Recommendations

• Radiology Department Preparedness for COVID-19: Radiology Scientific Expert Panel
• ISUOG: Webinar on How to prepare your unit for Coronavirus
• ASE COVID-19 Preparedness for Echo Labs: Insights from the Frontlines webinar
• Quick Guide on COVID-19 Protections — Patient and Ultrasound Provider Protection

Hand Hygiene and Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) Standards

Hand Hygiene

• IPCA Hand Hygiene

PPE

• WHO Putting on / taking off  (posters) 
• CDC Putting on and taking off PPE 
• PSHSA Putting on and taking off PPE 
• Health Canada (video) PPE Donning and Doffing: CDC Sequence for COVID 19

Preparation and Cleaning of Ultrasound Room, Equipment, and Transducers

• AIUM Official Statement Guidelines for Cleaning and Preparing External- and Internal-Use Ultrasound Transducers and Equipment Between Patients as well as Safe Handling and Use of Ultrasound Coupling Gel.
• ASA Endorsed ACIPC & ASUM (2017) Guidelines for reprocessing ultrasound transducers
• AIUM Quick Guide on COVID-19 Protections — Ultrasound Transducers, Equipment, and Gel
• SoR Effective and safe decontamination of ultrasound machines and transducers
• ISUOG Safety Committee Position Statement: Safe performance of obstetric and gynecological scans and equipment cleaning in the context of COVID-19
• FUSIC UK Committee on behalf of Intensive Care Society and endorsed by Society for Acute Medicine – Ultrasound Transducer and Equipment Cleaning and Disinfection