Team Spirit: A Vascular Access Team Is Placing CVCs and Arterial Lines – And Why That Matters

InConnie Girgenti an earlier post, we detailed the advantages that both hospitals and patients gain when non-physician vascular access specialists (VAS’s) are allowed to place central venous catheters (CVCs) and arterial lines. Now a recently published article describes how a vascular access team at a large community hospital in Illinois expanded its scope of practice to encompass these lines.

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