Society guideline links: Non-ultrasound imaging in pregnancy

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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 for performance of fetal magnetic resonance imaging, update (2023)

●Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI): Consensus document on occupational radiation exposure to the pregnant cardiologist and technical personnel (2011)

Canada

●Radiological Society of North America (RSNA): Statement on safety of the developing fetus in medical imaging during pregnancy (updated 2023)

●Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR): Recommendations for the safe use of MRI during pregnancy (2022)

●CAR: Position statement on discontinuing the use of gonadal and fetal shielding for patients (2021)

United States

●American College of Radiology (ACR)-Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR): Practice parameter for imaging pregnant or potentially pregnant patients with ionizing radiation (revised 2023)

●Radiological Society of North America (RSNA): Statement on safety of the developing fetus in medical imaging during pregnancy (updated 2023)

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on guidelines for diagnostic imaging during pregnancy and lactation (2017, reaffirmed 2021)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on second and third trimester screening for fetal anomaly (2020)

●ACR: Manual on MR safety (2020)

●American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM): Position statement on the use of patient gonadal and fetal shielding (2019)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on gestational trophoblastic disease (2019)

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Radiation and pregnancy – Information for clinicians (2019)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on breast imaging of pregnant and lactating women (2018)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on first trimester vaginal bleeding (revised 2017)

●Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) and Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE): A joint guideline on occupational radiation protection of pregnant or potentially pregnant workers in IR (2015)

Europe

●European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR): Guidelines on contrast agents, 10th edition (2018)

●Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) and Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE): A joint guideline on occupational radiation protection of pregnant or potentially pregnant workers in IR (2015)

●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)

●British Institute of Radiology (BIR), College of Radiographers (CoR), and Royal College of Radiologists (RCR): Pregnancy and work in diagnostic imaging departments, 2nd edition (2009)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG): Obstetrics and gynecology clinical practice guidelines - Obstetrics edition (2023)

●[In English] JSOG and Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (JAOG): Guidelines for obstetrical practice in Japan, 2020 edition (published 2023)

●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Cancer and Reproductive Medicine (JSFP): Clinical practice guidelines for pregnancy, childbirth and reproductive medicine for the breast cancer patient (2021)