STANDARDS OF PRACTICE Joint Practice Guideline for Sterile Technique during Vascular and Interventional Radiology Procedures: From the Society of Interventional Radiology, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, and Association for Radiologic and Imaging Nursing, for the Society of Interventional Radiology (Wael Saad, MD, Chair), Standards of Practice Committee, and Endorsed by the Cardiovascular Interventional Radiological Society of Europe and the Canadian Interventional Radiology Association Danny Chan, MD, MBA, Denise Downing, RN, MS, CNOR, Christine E. Keough, RN, BSN, CRN, Wael A. Saad, MD, Ganesh Annamalai, MD, B. Janne d’Othee, MD, MPH, Suvranu Ganguli, MD, Maxim Itkin, MD, Sanjeeva P. Kalva, MD, Arshad Ahmed Khan, MD, Venkataramu Krishnamurthy, MD, Boris Nikolic, MD, MBA, Charles A. Owens, MD, Darren Postoak, MD, Anne C. Roberts, MD, Steven C. Rose, MD, David Sacks, MD, Nasir H. Siddiqi, MD, Timothy L. Swan, MD, Raymond H. Thornton, MD, Richard Towbin, MD, Michael J. Wallace, MD, T. Gregory Walker, MD, Joan C. Wojak, MD, Ronald R. Wardrope, RN, NCII-E, CRN, and John F. Cardella, MD ABBREVIATIONS AORN = Association of periOperative Room Nurses, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, IR = interventional radiology, SSI = surgical site infection From the University of Texas Southwestern (D.C.), Dallas, Texas; Center for Nursing Practice (D.D.), Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, Denver, Colorado; Department of Imaging Sciences (C.E.K.), University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York; Department of Radiology (W.A.S.), University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia; Department of Medical Imaging (G.A.), Sun- nybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Radiology (B.J.dO), Division of Interventional Radiology, University of Maryland School of Med- icine, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Radiology (S.G.) and Section of Cardiovas- cular Imaging and Intervention (T.G.W.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and Philadelphia VA Medical Center (M.I.), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Massachussetts General Hospital (S.P.K.), Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Interventional Radiology (A.A.K.), Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Department of Radiology (V.K.), Uni- versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Department of Radiology (B.N.), Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; University of Illinois Medical Center (C.A.O.), Chicago, Illinois; University of Florida (D.P.), Gainesville, Florida; Department of Radiology (A.C.R.), UCSD Medical Center/Thornton Hospital, La Jolla, California; Noninvasive Vascular Laboratory (S.C.R.), UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, California; The Reading Hospital and Medical Center (D.S.), Reading, Penn- sylvania; Department of Radiology (N.H.S.), St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Department of Radiology (T.L.S.), Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (R.H.T.), New York, New York; Department of Radiology (R.T.), Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona; De- partment of Interventional Radiology (M.J.W.), The University of Texas M.D. Ander- son Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center (J.C.W.), Lafayette, Louisiana; Departments of Pediatric Radiology, Pediatric Body Computed Tomography, and Nuclear Medicine (R.R.W.), The Johns Hopkins Hospi- tal, Baltimore, Maryland; and Department of System Radiology (J.F.C.), Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania. Received July 13, 2012; accepted July 14, 2012. Address correspondence to D.C., c/o Debbie Katsarelis, 3975 Fair Ridge Dr, Ste 400, North, Fairfax, VA 22033; E-mail: dannychanmd@yahoo.com M.J.W. received research support from Siemens Medical. None of the other authors have identified a conflict of interest. This is a copublication with the Association of Radiology Nursing. This article is being published concurrently in the December 2012 issue of the Journal of Radiology Nursing. The articles are identical except for minor stylistic and spelling differences in keeping with each journal’s style. Either citation can be used when citing this article. Permission to reproduce this article can be granted by the copyright holder, Wolters Kluwer-Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.