Effectively and safely placing and securing an IVC  requires a thorough understanding of patient care including aseptic technique, anatomical variations, and patient injury/illness because these factors can affect the decisions you make regarding size, placement, troubleshooting, etc. Additionally, sound professional judgement is required to assess situations in which IVC placement is difficult so as to ask for help from colleagues or DVMs without damaging patient vessels and compromising the hospital's ability to provide required care and treatments. LVTs and DVMs are accountable to show sound professional judgement by virtue of the fact that we are subject to censure from the Veterinary Board. In my opinion, it is lowering the professional standard of care to allow unlicensed staff, who are not subject to review by the Board, to perform an invasive and complicated procedure, such as placing IV catheters. In reply to the comment on the shortage of LVTs, I submit for your consideration that DVMs are also capable of, and permitted to, place IV catheters in the absence of an available LVT.