I feel that jugular and urinary catheters should remain a duty of licensed veterinary technicians and veterinarians  but that cephalic and saphenous  IV catheters should be open, with limitations to veterinary assistants. Assistants who have experience in the field should be allowed to place cephalic and saphenous IV catheter and flush them, as long as they have been properly trained to do so and have an LVT or veterinarian on the premises. I am the only LVT in our busy clinic and there have been many times that having another assistant be able to place a catheter would have taken a huge burden off of myself and the doctors. On the days I am not there, this would not only increase efficiency, but in emergency cases it would allow the doctors to focus on the actual case rather than stop to perform a technical skill.