GUIDELINES
CONTACTS
VRAD Night Coverage
- This flow chart has been approved by Dr. Adam Searleman (Radiology Program Director) on 9/29/2025 to reflect which ED and inpatient studies should go out to vRAD during night shifts.
- To check for overnight attending coverage, review the ER/Trauma faculty QGenda calendar.
- Residents do not have the ability to send out studies to vRAD from their workstations.
- If there are any discrepancies between this flow chart and which studies are sent out, please inform Dr. Adam Searleman, Dr. Paul Murphy, Dr. Paul Jaffray, and Joey Savoie via email.
RESOURCES
- How to tell if a study has been sent to vRad
- Optimizing Visage Worklists on ERPM/NF (M. Ghani, 2023)
- Optimizing Fluency Workflow on ERPM/NF (Y. Qaseem, 2021)
PATIENT SAFETY
- ACR contrast manual
- UCSD Extravasation Policy (2022)
- UCSD Intravenous Contrast Media Guidelines (2022)
- UCSD Imaging of Pregnant Patient (2022)
- UCSD Critical Results (2022)
- UCSD Attending Radiologist Preliminary Interpretation and Reporting of STAT and Urgent Tests (2022)
- Radiographic appearances of needles, gauze and other OR materials (pdf)
- Assessing radiation risk for pregnant patients
- Contrast reaction kit locations (Dr. Ahsan Khan 4/21/2025)