SVU Announces Professional Performance DVD Series

LANHAM, MD, June 13, 2008 -- The Society for Vascular Ultrasound (SVU) launched four Professional Performance DVDs for the vascular ultrasound professional at its Annual Conference, June 5-7, 2008, in San Diego, CA. These DVDs are sponsored in part by an educational grant from GE Healthcare.

“A very good educational DVD that provides a comprehensive approach to all components required to perform vascular ultrasound examinations” said Anne Jones, Vascular Consultant.

The Professional Performance DVDs addresses the following areas:

• Purpose
• Common indications
• Contraindications and limitations
• Patient communication
• Patient assessment and physical examination
• Examination guidelines
• Review of the diagnostic exam findings
• Presentation of exam findings
• Exam time recommendations
• Continuing professional education
• And more!

The following Professional Performance DVDs are currently available for purchase:

• Lower Extremity Venous Duplex Examination
• Lower Extremity Arterial Segmental Physiology Examination
• Extracranial Cerebrovascular Duplex Examination
• Renal Artery and Mesenteric/Splanchnic Artery Duplex Imaging Examinations

Each SVU Professional Performance DVD is approved for 1 SVU-CME.

To order your DVD, please visit us at: http://www.svunet.org/publications/DVDs/

For more information on SVU, visit www.svunet.org.