Abdominal/General Ultrasound

Requisites

1. Standards and Guidelines for the Accreditation of Ultrasound Practices

2. Training Guidelines for Physicians Who Evaluate and Interpret Diagnostic Abdominal/General Ultrasound Examinations

3. Practice Parameter for Documentation of an Ultrasound Examination

Important Reference Materials

1. Guidelines for Cleaning and Preparing External- and Internal-Use Ultrasound Transducers Between Patients

2. Routine Quality Assurance "Cookbook"

AIUM Practice Parameters

1. Abdomen and/or Retroperitoneum

2. Prostate (and Surrounding Structures)

3. Scrotal

4. Abdominal Aorta in Adults

5. Neonatal Spine

6. Detection and Assessment of Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip

7. Neurosonography in Neonates and Infants

8. Thyroid/Parathyroid

9. Musculoskeletal

10. Contrast-Enhanced