I do not feel assistants should be allowed to place IV catheters. It's bad enough they do 90% of what is not allowed as it is. Instead of focusing on what they can do more of perhaps the state should start investigating what they are already doing illegally. We have these laws for what they can and cannot do but yet it's not enforced. Devaluing the LVT is pushing veterinary medicine back. If this was your child you wouldn't allow a nurses assistant to place a catheter or draw blood. We should have to adhere by the same rules. I think if we have the rules they should be followed. Just like DVMs we go to school to better ourselves and to be able to do specific tasks, we should not be degraded because people want it more convenient.