The Occlusion Management Guideline for Central Venous Access Devices (CVADs) (OMG)
In 2013, the Canadian Vascular Access Association (CVAA) embarked on a pilot project to help clinicians with the challenge of complications related to vascular access and infusion therapy. The focus was on occlusion management for central vascular access devices (CVADs), and the project aimed to help standardize clinical practice by providing a guideline for organizations, institutions, and hospitals that struggle with developing and implementing policies, procedures, and standards on this specific clinical topic. The guideline is meant to support standards of care and provide the “how to” through the discussion of evidence and best practice recommendations.
The CVAA guideline is referred to as the OMG (Occlusion Management Guideline). The OMG is intended for use by HCPs and involves CVADs outside of hemodialysis. There are many different CVADs that we deal with outside of the hemodialysis setting that are at risk for occlusion and other complications. The goal for the authors of the OMG was to take the literature and evidence available for this topic and make it relevant to clinical practice at the bedside.
CVAA is proud to present the revised 2019 CVAA Occlusion Management Guideline for Central Venous Access Devices (CVADs) below. To ensure relevancy of the guideline and in keeping with guideline methodology, CVAA presents this 2019 updated version based on current evidence.
**CVAA is updating the OMG in 2025
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Tools
The following tools (also available as part of the OMG download) are designed to support your efforts to implement these evidence-based recommendations, designed to identify, manage and prevent CVAD occlusions:
1: Competency Assessment
2: CVAD Tracking Tool
3: Medical Directive
4: Patient Information PICCs and WD Occlusions
5: Pre-Printed Order - 1
6: Pre-Printed Order - 2
7: Pre-Printed Order - 3
8: Test for Knowledge
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