ISUOG Women's Health Ultrasound Artificial Intelligence strategy

In light of the recent concerns, highlighted in a news piece by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), in relation to the existence and role of private baby scan clinics, the Safety Committee of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) is taking this opportunity to state the Society’s position on the non-diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics performed by non-trained practitioners.

This document provides recommendations regarding the appropriate use of point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) in obstetrics and gynecology (Ob/Gyn) in various clinical scenarios encountered by different healthcare professionals (e.g. emergency physicians, obstetrician-gynecologists, midwives, residents and family physicians). The target population consists of patients with Ob/Gyn complications or those needing an interventional procedure for which an immediate bedside sonographic evaluation is helpful.

Read the new ISUOG Practice Guidelines on the use of point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) in obstetrics and gynecology in various clinical scenarios that may be encountered by different healthcare professionals.

New UOG Journal videoclip showing virtual navigation inside a 3D model of a fetal heart with transposition of the great arteries.

New UOG Journal videoclip on the technique and feasibility of external cephalic version to enable transvaginal fetal neurosonography.

New UOG Journal videoclip from a study by Zhou et al., demonstrating that fetuses with tetralogy of Fallot exhibited a higher incidence of blood flow vortices in the ascending aorta compared with controls.

Learn more about the role of evaluating the cervix in predicting pre-term birth (PTB) with this month’s free resources.

The November issue of Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology includes an international Delphi consensus on the prenatal evaluation, diagnosis and management of fetal corpus callosal abnormalities, a systematic review examining the association between borderline oligohydramnios and adverse perinatal outcome, a geometric morphometry study evaluating pelvic shape as a risk factor for pelvic organ prolapse, a study investigating the predictive value of maximum trophoblast thickness in vertical congenital cytomegalovirus transmission, and a Consensus Statement on maternal hemodynamic assessment in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and fetal growth restriction.

In the run up to ISUOG’s 35th anniversary, we are taking the time to celebrate ‘ISUOG Innovators’ – the people who have made our society what it is to this day.