Vascular Access in the Midst of COVID-19

Times of stress and crisis allow professionals to evaluate familiar procedures in a new light. The insights gained from this evaluation enable facilities and clinicians to modify policies or actions which might otherwise be mired in confirmation bias and institutional inertia. COVID-19 is allowing hospitals and clinicians across the nation to look at how they are doing vascular access and thus provides opportunity for vascular access specialists to bring to bear evidence-based best practices.