Continuing Education for the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist: Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Intravenous Access.

Vascular access is critical in the perioperative arena and is a requirement for most surgical procedures. The goals of this project were to increase knowledge among certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) by providing a focused didactic and simulation course on ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous access and to assess the confidence and comfort levels of performing ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous access before and after the course. A combined didactic and simulation ultrasound-based education course was developed to train CRNAs in ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous access.