SCAI Best Practices for Clinical Proctoring of New Technologies and Techniques Guideline Summary - Guideline Central

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Document Overview

Document Title: Best Practices for Clinical Proctoring of New Technologies and Techniques

Authoring Society: Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions

Document Publication Date: Mar 30, 2022

Page Last Reviewed/Updated: May 5, 2026

Document Type: Consensus Statement

Country of Publication: United States

Full Text Freely Available: Yes

Full Text Guideline: www.jscai.org/article/S2772-9303(22)00020-5/fulltext

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Document Scope, Criteria, and Use Cases

Document Objectives: While medical proctoring is a longstanding practice beneficial with respect to training, it may also be associated with some risks to the patient, operator, proctor and host institution. These risks include, but may not be limited to, lack of appropriate equipment at the host institution, scheduling of inappropriate patients for proctored cases, and unclear medico-legal indemnification of the proctor. These potential risks have not been previously documented or described in the medical literature. The aim of this position statement of SCAI is to educate all parties of the potential risks involved with medical proctoring and to recommend best practices to reduce the potential for adverse events, misunderstandings, conflicts of interest, and unexpected medico-legal liability. While this document focuses on industry-sponsored proctoring of approved uses of medical devices, some aspects may be applicable to investigational devices and off-label use.

Scope: Counseling, Management

Keywords: new techniques, training

Inclusion Criteria: Male, Female, Adult, Older Adult

Health Care Settings: Hospital, Operating and Recovery Room, Outpatient

Intended Users: Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Physician, Physician Assistant

Recommendation Development Processes & Methodology

Supplemental Methodology Resource: Data Supplement

Number of Source Documents: 5

Includes peer/external review process?: Yes

Includes public comment process?: No

Methodologist involvement?: Yes

Patient involvement?: No

Includes multi-disciplinary group?: Yes

Includes systematic review?: Yes

Grades quality of strength of evidence?: No

Grades quality of strength of recommendation?: No

Discloses funding source?: Yes

Discloses conflicts of interest?: Yes

Includes benefits/harms analysis with recommendations?: No