Lately, a question has been on my mind: How do we make vascular access more accessible? The short answer is that there is no short answer. For the long answer (which is mostly just more questions) kindly continue reading. Although veins run throughout our entire body, they all lead back to the same place: the […]

Specialists in vascular access are key for not only gaining difficult access, but the equally important job of maintaining that access. VA-BC™ Kelly Walker rooted her poster presentation in this idea and won accolades for her vascular access team, proving their impact. Kelly Walker, BSN, RN, VA-BC™, wanted to focus on the effects of her […]

In 2023, Dustin Mason’s father was hospitalized, where he received vasopressors via a midline catheter, specifically Norepinephrine. “I will spare all of the gore and drama behind this horrible deviation from standards,” Mason told VACC. When the time came in hospice and his father was passing away, Mason was unable to hold his father’s hand […]