Practical Guides

Practical guides

Step-by-step guides for the practical side of critical care ultrasound at Salford — saving images on the machine, getting them into the patient record, infection control, and how to document what you found. This is the ‘how we do it here’ section: bookmark it, come back to it whenever you need a refresher.

New to the unit? Start with the clinical workflow below — that’s machine → PACS for real patient scans. Infection control and reporting are essential reading before you scan independently.

Clinical scans — machine to record

Real patient scans

For scans on real patients that go into the clinical record. Each step is a separate guide — save them as bookmarks if you don’t do this often.

Governance & quality