Safety Guidelines
1. Quality Improvement Guidelines
for Recording Patient Radiation Dose in the Medical Record
Donald L. Miller, MD, Stephen Balter, PhD, Louis K. Wagner, PhD,
John Cardella, MD, Timothy W.I. Clark, MD, MSc, Calvin D.
Neithamer, Jr, MD, Marc S. Schwartzberg, MD, Timothy L. Swan, MD,
Richard B. Towbin, MD, Kenneth S. Rholl, MD, and David Sacks, MD,
for the SIR Standards of Practice Committee
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2004; 15:423429
2. Quality Improvement Guidelines for Preventing
Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, and Wrong Person
Errors: Application of the Joint Commission
"Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site,
Wrong Procedure, Wrong Person Surgery" to the
Practice of Interventional Radiology
John F. Angle, MD, Albert A. Nemcek, Jr, MD, Alan M. Cohen, MD, Donald L. Miller, MD,
Clement J. Grassi, MD, Horacio R. D'Agostino, MD, Arshad Ahmed Khan, MD, Sanjoy Kundu, MD,
Robert B. Osnis, MD, Dheeraj K. Rajan, MD, Marc S. Schwartzberg, MD, Timothy L. Swan, MD,
Suresh Vedantham, MD, Michael J. Wallace, MD, and John F. Cardella, MD, for the SIR Standards Division
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2008; 19:1145-1151.
3. Recommendations for the Implementation of Joint Commission Guidelines for Labeling Medications
John D. Statler, MD, Richard B. Towbin, MD, Joseph A. Ronsivalle, DO, Anne Oteham, RN, BSN,
Donald L. Miller, MD, Clement J. Grassi, MD, Daniel B. Brown, MD, Horacio R. D'Agostino, MD,
Arshad Ahmed Khan, MD, Sanjoy Kundu, MD, Anne C. Roberts, MD, Cindy Kaiser Saiter, NP,
Marc S. Schwartzberg, MD, Suresh Vedantham, MD, Michael J. Wallace, MD, and John F. Cardella, MD, for the
SIR Standards of Practice Committee
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009; 20:S251-S255.
4. Quality Improvement Guidelines for Recording Patient Radiation Dose in the Medical Record for Fluoroscopically Guided Procedures
Donald L. Miller, MD, Stephen Balter, PhD, Robert G. Dixon, MD, Boris Nikolic, MD, MBA,
Gabriel Bartal, MD, John F. Cardella, MD, Lawrence T. Dauer, PhD,
and Michael S. Stecker, MD, for the Society of Interventional Radiology
Standards of Practice Committee
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2012; 23:11-18
5. Interventional Fluoroscopy: Reducing Radiation
Risks for Patients and Staff
Donald L. Miller, MD
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009; 20:S274
6. Occupational Health Hazards in the
Interventional Laboratory: Time for a Safer Environment
Lloyd W. Klein, MD, Donald L. Miller, MD, Stephen Balter, PhD, Warren Laskey, MD, David Haines, MD,
Alexander Norbash, MD, Matthew A. Mauro, MD, and James A. Goldstein, MD, on behalf of the members
of the Joint Inter-Society Task Force on Occupational Hazards in the Interventional Laboratory
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009; 20:147-153
7. Occupational Radiation Protection in
Interventional Radiology: A Joint Guideline of
the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
Society of Europe and the Society of Interventional Radiology
Donald L. Miller, MD, Eliseo Vano, PhD, Gabriel Bartal, MD, Stephen Balter, PhD, Robert Dixon, MD,
Renato Padovani, PhD, Beth Schueler, PhD, John F. Cardella, MD, and Thierry de Baere, MD
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2010; 21:607-615
8. Radiation Management for Interventions Using Fluoroscopic or Computed Tomographic Guidance during Pregnancy: A Joint Guideline of the Society of Interventional Radiology and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe with Endorsement by the Canadian Interventional Radiology Association
Lawrence T. Dauer, PhD, CHP, Raymond H. Thornton, MD, Donald L. Miller, MD,
John Damilakis, PhD, Robert G. Dixon, MD, M. Victoria Marx, MD, Beth A. Schueler, PhD,
Eliseo Vano, PhD, Aradhana Venkatesan, MD, Gabriel Bartal, MD, Dimitrios Tsetis, MD, PhD,
and John F. Cardella, MD, for the Society of Interventional Radiology Safety and Health
Committee and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe Standards
of Practice Committee
J Vasc Interv Radiol 2012; 23:19-32







