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Call Guidelines

GUIDELINES
  • Call Guide (Out of date... Last updated 05/2025)
  • Weekend Call Orientation (Updated 6/2/2025)


    • CONTACTS
  • Overnight Attending Contact Info (Updated 6/2/2025)
  • VA Technologist Contact Information


    • 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.
  • vRad Night Coverage
  • 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)