An exciting new partnership: BJN and the Association for Vascular Access

This issue of BJN's IV Therapy Supplement sees the start of a what we hope will be a long and fruitful collaboration between the Association for Vascular Access (AVA) and the journal. In this supplement, BJN is reprinting in full three articles previously published in our association's publication, the Journal of the Association for Vascular Access (JAVA).

The first article reports on the use of alcohol with chlorhexidine gluconate to disinfect central line hubs (pages S24–S26), the second looks at the acceptability of peripheral venepuncture versus external jugular venepuncture for liver patients (pages S27–S34), while the final article assesses the validity of using the difficult intravenous access (DIVA) score to predict the likely success of intravenous (IV) placement in the emergency department (pages S35–S40).

The groundwork for our new partnership was laid last autumn in Las Vegas during my conversation with MA Healthcare's Publishing Director Andy Iafrati and Managing Director Anthony Kerr in the Exhibit Hall down in the bowels of the Caesars Palace Convention Center during the AVA's 34th annual meeting.