acquiring data characterizing an area of a subject's skin surrounding an insertion site of an intravascular device;

applying a trained machine learning computer implemented method to process the acquired data, wherein the trained machine learning computer implemental method is configured to develop knowledge of training data, the training data comprising at least one of an image or measurement from a plurality of test subjects of an area underneath the test subjects' skin surrounding an insertion site of an intravascular device and an indication comprising intravascular device failure or intravascular device success paired with the image or measurement received from the test subjects; and

providing an indication to a user whether the acquired data indicates impending intravascular device failure.