Hey folks it's Weingard here and we have a great topic to talk about but before we do I should tell you that smack

Gold registration has just opened up so go immediately to smacknet.

EU and register because the workshops are

filling up fast and I realize I've been hiping this so hard that I should make a

disclaimer I get no money from the smack conference they're bringing me over as a

speaker so they pay my travel and

registration but I'm not taking a cut so the reason I'm hyping it so hard is

because I think it's great. Not because I have conflict of interest. Okay enough of

that let's get to the topic at hand.

I was going to do the real vasopressor show,

but there's just so much that I'm just not quite ready yet.

So what I figured I'd speak about instead

is peripheral vasopressors and

extravasation injury and this is kind of a lead-in topic to the

eventual full-on vasopressor show and this is a really good topic

because I was sent an article by Mike the Rock Stone and he asked

me to take a look at it and see what my opinion is on it.

And the article is entitled Central or Peripheral Catheters for initial venous access of ICU patients and it's by a gentleman

named Ricard.

He's French so I might be mispronouncing that but it's something that sounds like that.

And this was kind of amazing.

It was a randomized controlled trial where they

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