VA SIG July Meeting

You are warmly invited to attend the Vascular Access Special Interest Group (VASIG) meeting which will be held online on Tuesday, 14 July at 2:00 PM AEST. 

This is a free event offered online via Microsoft Teams.

Topic: VASIG Updates, PIVC Initiatives & Member Opportunities

Event Description:
In our upcoming Vascular Access Special Interest Group (VASIG) meeting, we are pleased to welcome guest speaker Melanie Trainor, who will present on the development of a standardised education resource for PIVC insertion and management, alongside Western Australian surveillance data on healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections associated with PIVCs.

We will also hear from Dr Josie Lovegrove, who will present Queensland-wide results from a PIVC point prevalence study.

The meeting will also include updates on the VASIG/AVAS partnership, VASIG vascular access policy repository, the VASIG position statement on ultrasound-guided PIVC insertion, and a special journal issue on VASCULAR ACCESS within the Infection, Disease and Health journal, for those interested in publishing vascular access research. Additionally, we will introduce a new PIVC Point Prevalence Snapshot Study, with an opportunity for members to express interest in participating.

We would also like to highlight an upcoming workshop at the ACIPC conference (Sunday 8 November), organised by the VASIG and led by Associate Professor Evan Alexandrou on Principles and Practice in Difficult Venous Access. We would love to see you all there!

Speakers:

• Ms Melanie Trainor
• Professor Claire Rickard
• Dr Josie Lovegrove

To register for the July meeting, please click the following link:
https://cdesign.eventsair.com/acipc-secretariat/sig-va.

Contact VASIG Convenor: Claire Rickard, Professor of Infection Prevention & Vascular Access, University of Queensland c.rickard@uq.edu.au.au.