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==PREAMBLE==
This document is an educational tool designed to assist practitioners in providing appropriate radiologic care for
patients. Practice Parameters and Technical Standards are not inflexible rules or requirements of practice and are not
intended, nor should they be used, to establish a legal standard of care1. For these reasons and those set forth below,
the American College of Radiology and our collaborating medical specialty societies caution against the use of these
documents in litigation in which the clinical decisions of a practitioner are called into question.
The ultimate judgment regarding the propriety of any specific procedure or course of action must be made by the
practitioner in light of all the circumstances presented. Thus, an approach that differs from the guidance in this
document, standing alone, does not necessarily imply that the approach was below the standard of care. To the
contrary, a conscientious practitioner may responsibly adopt a course of action different from that set forth in this
document when, in the reasonable judgment of the practitioner, such course of action is indicated by the condition of
the patient, limitations of available resources, or advances in knowledge or technology subsequent to publication of
this document. However, a practitioner who employs an approach substantially different from the guidance in this
document is advised to document in the patient record information sufficient to explain the approach taken.
The practice of medicine involves not only the science, but also the art of dealing with the prevention, diagnosis,
alleviation, and treatment of disease. The variety and complexity of human conditions make it impossible to always
reach the most appropriate diagnosis or to predict with certainty a particular response to treatment. Therefore, it
should be recognized that adherence to the guidance in this document will not assure an accurate diagnosis or a
successful outcome. All that should be expected is that the practitioner will follow a reasonable course of action based
on current knowledge, available resources, and the needs of the patient to deliver effective and safe medical care. The
sole purpose of this document is to assist practitioners in achieving this objective.

==Introduction==
This practice parameter was revised collaboratively by the American College of Radiology (ACR), the Society of
Interventional Radiology (SIR), and the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) [1].
This practice parameter is intended to improve patient care by improving the consistency of medical record content,
the written or dictated reports, and image archiving for vascular/interventional radiology procedures (exclusive of
breast interventional procedures). For information on breast interventional procedures, see the ACR Practice
Parameter for the Performance of Stereotactic Guided Breast Interventional Procedures or the ACR Practice
Parameter for the Performance of Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Breast Interventional Procedures.
These practice parameters will serve the following specific purposes:
1. To document medical care
2. To be used in quality improvement programs and for credentialing purposes
3. To be used in research
4. To document procedures for appropriate coding
5. To provide practice parameters for state health codes for image archiving



==Source==
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