ISUOG Practice Guidelines: point-of-care ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology

This ISUOG practice guideline paper addresses the use of point-of-care ultrasound across obstetrics and gynecology, outlining how such scanning should be implemented and standardized in relevant clinical contexts. It synthesizes guideline recommendations from the ISUOG framework and related evidence, providing high-level statements about appropriate applications, operator-related considerations, and quality assurance for point-of-care use. The paper’s main limitation is that, as a practice guideline, it does not present new primary experimental data and may not resolve uncertainty for every specific indication or setting. Relevance to endometriosis: the paper is included in the corpus because it covers point-of-care ultrasound in gynecology where pelvic pain and related diagnostic scenarios (including conditions such as endometriosis/adenomyosis) may be evaluated, though it is not specifically centered on endometriosis or adenomyosis.

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