“Our efforts include prioritizing oral hydration when clinically appropriate, using smaller volumes when possible and increasing oversight by medical providers to ensure IV fluids are used only ...
UVA Health Culpeper Medical Center CEO said in recent phone call local hospital experiencing unique challenges due to supply chain shortage of crucial fluids.
The IV fluids lost in the Baxter disaster are key to all kinds of inpatient care. Many U.S. hospitals are conserving fluid by giving some patients oral hydration instead of IVs, or by delaying ...
Years before Hurricane Helene shut down a critical intravenous fluid facility in North Carolina, sparking concerns in hospitals across the country, many common IV fluids were already in short ...
The first IV product shipments cleared by the FDA for temporary importation are set to arrive in the U.S. this weekend, Baxter said on its hurricane update page Thursday. By the end of the year ...
8, 2020, photo shows a sealed bag that contains a saline IV solution at a hospital in Portland ... These management efforts include using oral hydration with fluids such as Gatorade and Pedialyte ...
Kennedy said hospitals are conserving their IV fluids where they can. “Some medical conditions such as maybe dehydration, can be treated with an alternative method, such as oral hydration ...
Hospitals were left scrambling after the storm flooded a Baxter manufacturing plant in Marion, N.C. The plant makes about 60 percent of the IV fluid in the country, including hydration and ...