Advisory DI21/08: Medication management - For imaging associated with surgical and interventional procedures

Advisory details

Purpose

To clarify how diagnostic imaging practices apply Standard 2.4 Medication Management when imaging occurs in association with a surgical or interventional procedure.

Issue

It can be unclear what a diagnostic imaging clinician must do when attending a patient to:

• perform imaging as part of a surgical or interventional procedure, where
• the medication, relevant to the performance of the procedure is provided to the patient by another clinician.

Requirements

The clinician who administers the medication is responsible for recording the medication-related information into a patient’s record.

If a diagnostic imaging clinician administers a medication^[1] during a surgical or interventional procedure, the clinician must document the information prescribed in Standard 2.4 into the patient’s record.

Where another clinician administers medication, the diagnostic imaging clinician performing the imaging during a surgical or interventional procedure documents in the patient's record that medications were administered and managed by another clinician. In this case, the diagnostic imaging clinician is not required to document the patient’s medication use and/or history or reactions to medications.

For more information

For guidance on evidentiary requirements for Standard 2.4, see the User Guide for Diagnostic Imaging Practices Applying for Accreditation.

• ^{[1] A medication includes anything administered to the patients to create or enhance an image.}