.CVAA is pleased to participate in an online knowledge sharing network called Sosido (www.sosido.com). Sosido was created for and by healthcare associations, to speed knowledge transfer, promote collaboration, highlight the important work and research by members, and bridge silos by publicizing the contributions of each specialty group to the broader healthcare community. CVAA joins a growing network of associations and research groups on Sosido, including the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology (CANO).

CVAA members will receive a weekly email digest summarizing all activity in the CVAA community. You don’t have to log in to participate, and anything that’s important will come to your inbox, including:

• Updates on all publications authored by CVAA members that week. Sosido automatically delivers a current and complete snapshot of the work of our CVAA community.
• A summary of new articles released that week from journals chosen by you.
• Access to a secure CVAA members-only forum to ask and answer questions.

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Please note that you can unsubscribe from emails or remove yourself from the network at any time.

We look forward to staying in touch with you through the CVAA community on Sosido, and we welcome your questions and feedback.

If you have not recieved your login details, please email Melissa Stark at cvaa@cvaa.info

To celebrate our 9th Annual Canadian Vascular Access & Infusion Therapy Day, we want to highlight three of our CVAA members contributing to vascular access and infusion therapy education through the Members' Q&A Forum on Sosido.

Don't know what Sosido is? As a CVAA member, you already have an account to log in and ask and answer clinical questions. Check it out here.

Do a deeper dive with our CVAA members on the following topics:

            

Watch Here - Dressing Change

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Watch Here - ANTT

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Regarder ici - Guidage échographique

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The CVAA Member Q&A Forum on Sosido is one the most used benefit. Here are some recent questions from CVAA Members. Log in today to see the answers! 

1. How long should unused prepared IV lines be kept prior to discard? 
2. With the mask shortage from the COVID-19 pandemic, how are your homecare nurses providing care for patients who require CVAD procedures that require a mask? 
3. What facilities are using the chlorhexidine dressings for short-term non-tunneled CVCs? Is the standard of practice for all facilities to use the chlorhexidine dressing for all CVCs or is it just when there is an infection suspected?
4. Looking for information related to frequency of flushing for pediatric implanted ports. We currently state every 4 weeks if not in use but we have heard that there is a move towards every 8 weeks? I am also interested in flushing volumes.
5. If a patient has a blocked PICC line (assuming it is a double lumen and only one is blocked, sluggish, etc.) do we administer Alteplase to ALL the lumens or just the blocked ones?
6. What are your thoughts on not teaching patients to pull back for blood flash from their PICC line when taught to self administer their own IV antibiotics?