[The French National Committee on Obstetrical and Fetal Ultrasound guidelines 2022 (CNEOF)]

Abstract

The 2022 CNEOF guidelines (Conférence nationale d'échographie obstétricale et fœtale) report has been recently issued. It presents the necessary evolutions for the years to come, in a philosophy of optimal security for patients and caregivers, through a homogenization of ultrasound screening practices. As a source of changes in practices, this new version raises concerns, and even reticence, which must be heard and addressed, by reminding that this report is not fixed and can be adapted to the realities of practice over time and their feedback. This short text presents the CNEOF, the novelties of the 2022 report and details some important parts of the report that have been a source of questioning in the month following its publication. The aim of this text is to present a summary (in addition to the full report) to reassure, through education, all the parties involved in this medical practice which is so exciting and of major importance for perinatal health. Thus, the types of ultrasound examinations (screening, diagnostic, expertise…), the conditions of their realization, dating, biometries and the items part of the ultrasound reports are presented with elements of precision useful for their implementation.

Keywords: Biométries; Diagnostic; Dépistage; Expertise; Fetal ultrasound; Growth charts; Guidelines; Recommandations; Screening; Échographie fœtale.