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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 ...
Baxter supplies about 60% of IV fluids to hospitals in the US, and some rely exclusively on Baxter products. Although the US Food and Drug Administration has not declared any new shortages related ...
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 ...
Fluid replacement or fluid resuscitation is the medical practice of replenishing bodily fluid lost through sweating, bleeding, fluid shifts or other pathologic processes. . Fluids can be replaced with oral rehydration therapy (drinking), intravenous therapy, rectally such as with a Murphy drip, or by hypodermoclysis, the direct injection of fluid into the subcutaneous tis
Central lines are used to administer medication or fluids that are unable to be taken by mouth or would harm a smaller peripheral vein, obtain blood tests (specifically the "central venous oxygen saturation"), administer fluid or blood products for large volume resuscitation, and measure central venous pressure.
Hospitals across the U.S. are taking steps to conserve their supplies of IV fluids after Hurricane Helene struck a critical manufacturing plant belonging to the country’s biggest supplier ...
Non-medicated intravenous fluids (e.g. 0.9% normal saline) Sublingual nitroglycerin (service-supplied without needing medical direction) Epinephrine 1:1,000 for anaphylaxis and epinephrine 1:10,000 for cardiac arrest; Dextrose 50%, dextrose 25%, and glucagon for hypoglycemia; Naloxone for opioid overdoses; Nitrous oxide for pain management
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 ...