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ICU Medical, another IV fluid supplier, said it's monitoring for potential increases in demand. The company has "already taken necessary steps to increase production to help meet market needs ...
The major disruptions to the IV fluid supply after Hurricane Helene are the latest in a string of challenges that have exposed vulnerabilities to the broader US supply chain.
Most of Nashville's hospitals have a healthy supply of fluids, but they are continuing to assess sometimes daily and search for back-up elsewhere. How Nashville hospitals are handling IV, dialysis ...
Some switched patients who can drink fluids to Gatorade or water instead of giving them an IV. Hospitals also have started postponing planned procedures that can wait, like some orthopedic surgeries or heart procedures, said Dr. Chris DeRienzo, chief physician executive for the American Hospital Association.
Baxter Healthcare Corp. has begun rationing its products. It may be weeks till it reopens. Hospitals brace for IV, dialysis fluid shortages after Helene shuts down NC producer
Baxter International’s IV fluid manufacturing facility in Marion, N.C., supplied roughly 60 percent of the IV solution used by hospitals in the U.S. every day until Helene temporarily halted ...
Mass General Brigham, which operates a network of hospitals in New England, said last week that it received only 40% of its usual supply of IV fluid from Baxter. The Florida Hospital Association ...
A drip chamber, also known as drip bulb, is a device used to allow gas (such as air) to rise out from a fluid so that it is not passed downstream. It is commonly employed in delivery systems of intravenous therapy and acts to prevent air embolism. [1] [2] The use of a drip chamber also allows an estimate of the rate at which fluid is administered.