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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.
"Stormont Vail Health has implemented an IV Fluid Incident Command Team that is closely monitoring supply and usage to control distribution throughout the system in order to maintain patient care ...
After Hurricane Helene damaged one of the largest IV fluid manufacturing plants in the U.S., hospitals around the country are struggling to treat patients.. Helene devastated parts of Florida ...
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.
Pre-Filled Infusion Therapy: with this latest technology, a unit dose can be metered to the location from a pre-filled container. Infusion therapy has a range of medical applications including sedation, anesthesia, post-operative analgesic pain management, chemotherapy, and treatment of infectious diseases
The AHA, which represents nearly 5,000 hospitals and health care organizations, wants the Food and Drug Administration to declare a shortage of IV solutions and allow hospitals and health systems ...
Hydroxyethyl starch (HES/HAES), sold under the brand name Voluven among others, is a nonionic starch derivative, used as a volume expander in intravenous therapy.The use of HES on critically ill patients is associated with an increased risk of death and kidney problems.
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 ...