The 9^th World Congress on Vascular Access (WoCoVA) is rapidly approaching. The event is taking place from April 15^th – 17^th, 2026 at the Valencia Congress Centre in Valencia (Spain).

WoCoVA has now opened abstract submissions for the congress. With this, we would like to inform you once again about the “call for abstracts”, and invite you to share this information with your colleagues and professional networks to encourage scientific abstract submissions from your country.

The WoCoVA Scientific Committee will evaluate all abstracts and will select the best abstracts for an oral presentation of 10 minutes, other abstracts will be part of the poster presentation session. The deadline for abstract submissions is Friday the 9^th of January 2026.

Abstracts can be submitted on the WoCoVA website:

https://wocova.com/abstracts-2026/

We would appreciate it if you would share this within your network. Together we make the 9^th WoCoVA a great success!

Hope to see you all at WoCoVA in April 2026 in Valencia!

The CVR Calc app, which has been freshly updated, is now available on the Apple Store for iOS, with a MacOS version also accessible. The Android version, launched on July 21st, is available on the Google Play Store, making it accessible globally to healthcare providers. CVR Calc 2.0 determines the catheter-to-vessel ratio (CVR), a crucial factor in minimizing complications such as thrombosis and vessel damage during vascular access procedures for neonatal, pediatric and adult patients.

By utilizing CVR Calc, clinicians possess a definitive and reliable tool with updated calculations to 2 decimal places (V1 was only to 1 decimal), thereby enhancing accuracy and facilitating informed decision-making to improve patient outcomes worldwide. This launch is timely during the #AVA2025 conference, where CVR is a focus of a general session topic to increase awareness of the importance of measuring an intravascular vessel.

Existing users of CVR Calc are advised to update to the latest version to benefit from the enhanced features. These updates also include specific French sizes for neonatal and pediatric catheters as requested by specialist clinicians.