[Report of the French "conférence nationale de l'échographie obstétricale et fœtale" (CNEOF)-- recommendations for focused prenatal ultrasound]

Abstract

The conference has among its functions, to promote a quality assurance policy for obstetrics and foetal ultrasound scans by participating in the development of an information strategy for the professionals and the public on the interest and limits of these techniques, and in the development of rules for good practice. Thus, the conference produced in 2005 a good practice's recommendations report concerning the screening of ultrasound scans, with an actualised version in 2015, and has published in 2014 a similar report concerning second line prenatal ultrasound. The conference complements these recommendations by characterizing the third type of ultrasound scan, the "focused ultrasound scan", which is a daily tool for every practitioner in obstetrics.

Keywords: CNEOF; Focalisée; Focused; Prenatal ultrasound; Recommandations; Recommendations; Échographie fœtale.