Vascular Access Resources
Standards, guidelines, education, and reading for clinicians who insert, care for, and maintain vascular access devices.
Professional Organizations and Standards
- Association for Vascular Access (AVA) Networks
- Join AVA: Membership
- The AVA Foundation
- AVA Vascular Access Education Partnership: Resource Guide
- AVA Vessel Health and Preservation
- Infusion Nurses Society (INS)
- INS Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice
- Vascular Access Certification Corporation (VACC): VA-BC
- ISMP Safe Practice Guidelines for Adult IV Push Medications
Global
Rural and resource-limited care is not a local problem. These organizations and guidelines reach well beyond the United States.
Education
- Teleflex Academy Clinical Education
- Infusion Knowledge (Kay Coulter)
- PICC Excellence for Clinicians
- Hemostasis and the Clotting Cascade (infographic by April Winborne)
Free Reading
- Vessel Health and Preservation: The Right Approach for Vascular Access (Springer, 2019, open access)
- Accepted but Unacceptable: Peripheral IV Catheter Failure
- Standards of Care for Peripheral Intravenous Catheters: Evidence-Based Expert Consensus
- KDIGO 2024 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease (PDF)