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
