Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid supplies to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV ...

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Puerto Rico produces 44% of the intravenous (IV) fluid bags used in the United States. 1 On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria struck the island, causing a humanitarian crisis and widespread ...

CARE PROVIDERS SAY IT’S A DIFFERENT SITUATION. IN A STATEMENT SENT TO NEWS NINE, A MEDIA REPRESENTATIVE FROM MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM SAYS IN PART THEY, QUOTE, MADE THE DIFFICULT DECISION TO DEFER SOME ...

Ensuring clinically sound, cost-effective medication therapy is a critical function of pharmacists. Yet addressing the costly and potentially dangerous process of sterile IV compounding—one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – Officials with Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center say due to recent Hurricane Helene damage, there ...

For a very long time, hospital pharmacies have relied on 503B Compounding facilities to outsource to or from which to purchase a variety of supplies, such as ready-to-use critical care drips, OR ...

Medical community members are monitoring an IV shortage in the wake of Hurricane Helene. A supplier’s manufacturing plant was destroyed when the storm ripped through the Carolinas. The situation in ...

Huntsville Hospital is delaying some non-emergency surgeries due to a critical shortage of IV fluids. The hospital has announced the delay, which officials stress does not cancel surgeries. The delay ...