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Clinical practice guidelines endorsed by the Canadian Association for Interventional Radiology (CAIR) seek to define practice principles that should assist physicians in producing high quality medical care. These guidelines are not mandatory. Physicians may deviate from them, as required by specific circumstances, such as the patient’s situation and available resources.
These guidelines should not be deemed inclusive of all proper methods of care or exclusive of other methods of care that are reasonably directed towards the same result. Other sources of information may be used in conjunction with these principles to produce a process leading to high quality medical care. The ultimate judgment regarding the conduct of any specific procedure or course of management must be made by the physician, who should consider all circumstances relevant to the individual clinical situation.
Adherence to the SIR Quality Improvement Program will not assure a successful outcome in every situation. It is prudent to document the rationale for any deviation from the suggested guidelines in department policies and procedures or in the patient’s medical record.
- The Canadian Association for Interventional Radiology (CAIR) and Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR) Guidelines for Interventional Radiology Procedures for the Patients with Suspected or Confirmed COVID‐19 (PDF)
- Multi-society Consensus Quality Improvement Guidelines for the Treatment of Lower extremity Superficial Venous Insufficiency with Endovenous Thermal Ablation (PDF)
- Multi-disciplinary Quality Improvement Guidelines for the Treatment of Lower Extremity Superficial Venous Insufficiency with Ambulatory Phlebectomy (PDF)
- Guidelines for Peripheral and Visceral Vascular Embolization Training (PDF)
- Clinical Practice Guidelines for Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair (PDF)
- Practice Guideline for Adult Antibiotic Prophylaxis during Vascular and Interventional Radiology Procedures (PDF)
- Multidisciplinary Practical Guidelines for Gastrointestinal Access for Enteral Nutrition and Decompression (PDF)
- Radiation Management for Interventions Using Fluoroscopic or Computed Tomographic Guidance during Pregnancy (PDF)
- Joint Practice Guideline for Sterile Technique During Vascular and Interventional Radiology Procedures: From the Society of Interventional Radiology, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, and Association for Radiologic and Imaging Nursing (PDF)
- Multisociety Consensus Quality Improvement Guidelines for Intraarterial Catheter Directed Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke (PDF)
This last article was first published in the February issue of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 2013; 24:151–163. ©SIR, 2013.
The above mentioned guidelines are co-authored by the Canadian Interventional Radiology Association (CAIR), if you wish to see more guidelines, please visit
http://www.sirweb.org/clinical/ or the Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR).
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