Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Prenatal screening and diagnosis".)
International
●International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Radiation protection of pregnant women in nuclear medicine
●International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG): Practice guidelines
●Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE): A joint guideline on occupational radiation protection of pregnant or potentially pregnant workers in IR (2015)
●SIR and CIRSE: A joint guideline on radiation management for interventions using fluoroscopic or computed tomographic guidance during pregnancy (2012)
●Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI): Consensus document on occupational radiation exposure to the pregnant cardiologist and technical personnel (2011)
Canada
●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't perform umbilical artery Doppler studies as a routine screening test in uncomplicated pregnancies with normal fetal growth (updated 2019)
●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Clinical practice guideline on the use of first trimester ultrasound (2019)
●Radiological Society of North America (RSNA): Statement on safety of the developing fetus in medical imaging during pregnancy (2018)
●SOGC: Ultrasound in twin pregnancies (2017)
United States
●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria gestational trophoblastic disease (2019)
●ACR: Guidance document on MR safe practices – Updates and critical information (2019)
●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Radiation and pregnancy – Information for clinicians (2019)
●ACR: ACR Appropriate Criteria breast imaging of pregnant and lactating women (2018)
●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria growth disturbances – Risk of fetal growth restriction (revised 2018)
●ACR-Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR): Practice parameter for imaging pregnant or potentially pregnant adolescents and women with ionizing radiation (revised 2018)
●American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM)-ACR-American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)-Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM)-Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU): Practice parameter for the performance of standard diagnostic obstetric ultrasound examinations (2018)
●Radiological Society of North America (RSNA): Statement on safety of the developing fetus in medical imaging during pregnancy (2018)
●ACOG: Committee opinion on guidelines for diagnostic imaging during pregnancy and lactation (2017)
●ACOG, AIUM, and SMFM: Committee opinion on methods for estimating the due date (2017)
●SMFM: Consult series on the role of ultrasound in women who undergo cell-free DNA screening (2017)
●ACOG: Practice bulletin on ultrasound in pregnancy (2016)
●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria assessment of fetal well-being (2016)
●SMFM: Statement on ultrasound screening for fetal microcephaly following Zika virus exposure (2016)
●AIUM and SMFM: Consensus report on the detailed fetal anatomic ultrasound examination – Indications, components, and qualifications (2014)
●Choosing Wisely: Don't screen for intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) with Doppler blood flow studies (2014)
●AIUM: Practice parameter for the performance of fetal echocardiography (2013)
Europe
●European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR): Guidelines on contrast agents, 10th edition (2018)
●ESUR: Contrast Media – Safety Issues and Guidelines, 3rd edition (2014)
●ESUR: Recommendations on acute abdominal and pelvic pain in pregnancy (2013)
United Kingdom
●Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology (RCOG): Scientific impact paper on the combined use of ultrasound and fetal magnetic resonance imaging for a comprehensive fetal neurological assessment in fetal congenital cardiac defects (2019)
●RCOG: Scientific impact paper on ultrasound from conception to 10+0 weeks of gestation (2015)
●British Institute of Radiology (BIR), College of Radiographers (SOR), and Royal College of Radiologists (RCR): Pregnancy and work in diagnostic imaging departments, 2nd edition (2009)
Australia-New Zealand
●Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG), Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM), and Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR): Position statement on the appropriate use of diagnostic ultrasound (2015)
