Digital Content Disclaimer (T&Cs)
By accessing EMUGs content, including website, blog, chat forums and social media sites and registering for and attending EMUGs events, you agree to be bound by the following terms:
All content presented, published or posted on this website or any other EMUGs forum or social media platform or at any EMUGs event is subject to copyright and is the intellectual property of Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Groups. You may not reuse, republish or reprint such content without our written consent.
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EMUGs makes every effort to monitor the contents of our publications to ensure it is of an appropriate nature in our opinion. If you find inappropriate content on any of our platforms, please notify us immediately. Content that is deemed inappropriate at our sole discretion will be removed. EMUGs shall not be held responsible for inappropriate content, images, comments, opinions or third party links submitted by other users or EMUGs representatives.
All information posted is merely for informational purposes. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice. Should you decide to act upon any information on EMUGs website, blog, group chat groups and social media accounts you do so at your own risk.
The information contained on this website and our other digital assets is derived from a number of sources such as sponsors, partners, volunteers and other third parties. While the EMUGs has taken all reasonable steps to ensure that all information is from reliable and reputable sources and is accurate, it accepts no liability or responsibility for any acts or omissions, done or omitted in reliance in whole or in part, on the information. EMUGs accept’s no responsibility for the manner in which this information is subsequently used. EMUGs accept no liability or responsibility to any person as a consequence of any reliance upon the information disseminated in any format be that published content or information disseminated verbally, live or recorded at one of our events.
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We do not collect personal information on this site unless you choose to give it to us and do not share your personal information externally.
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Maintaining Patient Confidentiality when Sharing Cases and Images:
For the purpose of education and peer discussion and support EMUGs encourages its community members to share interesting cases and images via our Whats App chat groups, blog, social media channels and as part of our events such as webinars and workshops.
Maintaining patient confidentiality is crucial and it is the contributors responsibility to ensure they abide by their own hospital /employers policy in this regard. We recommend seeking advice from your hospital executive team or department manager prior to posting any images to these forums. Nothing in your images or case description should lead to the identification of an individual patient. As such all cases and images should be completely de-identified, so as to leave no way of identifying an individual. The following identifiers must be removed; name, initials, date of birth, address, including full or partial postal code, telephone or fax numbers or contact information, e-mail addresses, unique identifying numbers, e.g. UR, MRN, HID, Place of employment, medical device identifiers, e.g. serial numbers, web or internet protocol addresses containing any link to the patient, biometric data, facial photograph or comparable image, audiotapes, names of relatives, date of study, manufacturer logos are sometimes burnt into the images (particularly ultrasound); if possible remove these.
To help maintain confidentiality we recommend ensuring that the age/sex be changed and that you round off the patient's age to the nearest 5 years (for adults). Please remove embedded text/metadata identifying data from your images and if the file name contains patient identifiers then change it. Most machines and PACS allow you to export without text overlay.
Once an image is published it is difficult to control where it may end up as such we also recommend removing any identifier to you or your place of employment in the image. This would include logos, signatures and names. Try to avoid publishing high profile, rare or temporal cases immediately after you acquire the scan.
To assist you in this process we recommend using a tool such as Ben Smith’s Ultrasound Clip Deindentifier
In the event that you do upload images or text with identifiers it will be deleted as soon as we become aware of it.
As we are a community volunteer organisation with multiple contributors on multiple platforms, we are unable to stop identifying information being uploaded without our knowing and so rely on contributors to abide by our terms of use.
In the event that you find a case with personal information, please email central@emugs.org and we will remove the content immediately. Our full General Terms and Conditions can be viewed via; https://www.emugs.org/termsandconditions
Please contact us if you have any questions.
