Dr Frédéric Gomas is an Anaesthetist. He has been the head of the vascular access unit for adults and children at the Gustave Roussy hospital in Paris for 10 years. He is a member of the GIFAV (French-speaking interdisciplinary group for vascular access). He is both involved in vascular access device placement (he places about 1000 per year) and in training doctors and nurses who place and use it.