Clinical Practice Guidelines

AVA PIVC Standards of Care: Evidence Based Expert Consensus (2024)

Cancer Nurses Society of Australia (CNSA) vascular access guidelines (2024)

ECO-SEOM-SEEO safety recommendations guideline for cancer patients receiving intravenous therapy (2024)

Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice, 9th Edition (2024)

The INS guidelines are free for INS members. Non-members can purchase the guidelines from the INS website.

WHO guidelines for the prevention of bloodstream infections and other infections associated with the use of intravascular catheters (2024)

ESPEN practical guideline: Home parenteral nutrition (2023)

European recommendations on the proper indication and use of peripheral venous access devices (the ERPIUP consensus): A WoCoVA project (2023)

Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) best practice guideline on the assessment and management of vascular access devices (2023)

CDC Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Infections in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Patients: Central Line-associated Blood Stream Infections (2022)

Guidelines of the Italian Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology for the management of the central venous access devices in pediatric patients with onco-hematological disease (2022)

Safer Care Victoria - Decreasing infections associated with peripheral intravenous cannulas (2022)

SHEA A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute-Care Hospitals (2022)

SHEA/IDSA/APIC Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute-care hospitals (2022)

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care Management of Peripheral Intravenous Catheters Clinical Care Standard (2021)

ACI Central Venous Access Device: Post Insertion Management (2021)

Central venous catheter-related infections in hematology and oncology (2020)

ECMO services in NSW - Clinical Practice Guide (2020)

European Society of Anaesthesiology guidelines on peri-operative use of ultrasound-guided for vascular access (PERSEUS vascular access) (2020)

Expert consensus-based clinical practice quidelines management of intravascular catheters in the intensive care unit (2020)

GAVeCeLT (Gli Accessi Venosi Centrali a Lungo Termine): Considerations on the use of vascular access devices in patients with COVID-19 (2020)

Guidelines for the management of extravasation (2020)

Practice Guidelines for Central Venous Access 2020: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Central Venous Access (2020)

The Michigan Appropriatenses Guide for Intravenous Catheters in Pediatrics: miniMAGIC (2020)

KDOQI Clinical Practice Guideline for Vascular Access (2019)

 Intra-vascular device management | Queensland Health (2019)

NHMRC: Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare (2019)

Patient Safety Movement: Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS) (2019)

Vessel Health and Preservation: The Right Approach for Vascular Access (2019)

A state of the art review on optimal practices to prevent, recognize, and manage complications associated with intravascular devices in the critically ill (2018)

Diagnosis and treatment of catheter-related blood stream infection: Clinical guidelines of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology and (SEIMC) and the Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC) (2018)

CDC, NHSN. Surveillance Definitions for Specific Types of Infections. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Patient Safety Component Manual (2018)

SHEA Expert Advice: Infection prevention in the operating room anesthesia work area (2018)

Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland: Safe vascular access (2016)

Expert consensus document on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of short-term peripheral venous catheter-related infections in adults. (2016)

Royal College of Nursing. Standards for infusion therapy. London, UK: Royal College of Nursing, (2016)

The Michigan Appropriateness Guide for Intravenous Catheters (MAGIC): Results From a Multispecialty Panel Using the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method (2015)