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Hospitals Hit With IV Fluid Shortage After Hurricane Helene. Story by Joseph Walker, Peter Loftus • 2w. T he U.S.’s largest maker of intravenous fluids will slash shipments to hospitals after ...
Jackie Fortier, KFF Health News: Absolutely. I mean, Hurricane Helene struck North Carolina in late September, as you said, flooding the largest IV fluid factory in the US and I think everyone was ...
Hospitals across the country are struggling to conserve and stretch their supplies of IV fluids in the wake of a shortage brought on by Hurricane Helene, in some cases giving patients Gatorade ...
Heavy rains from hurricane Helene caused record flooding and damage on September 28, 2024, in Asheville, North Carolina. There are fears a nationwide shortage of IV fluid and dialysis products ...
Among those feeling the aftershock, hospitals around the U.S. have reported a shortage of IV fluid. Baxter International, an IV fluid manufacturing plant in North Cove, North Carolina, was hit ...
Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid bags to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV ...
Central Ohio hospitals are battling a shortage of IV and dialysis fluids because of the closure of a production facility damaged by Hurricane Helene. Mount Carmel Hospital, Nationwide Children's ...
Since the plant has been shut down, hospitals have hit shortages and order limits of critical IV and dialysis fluids. In one survey, over 86 percent of health care providers said they were affected.
IV fluid shortage after hurricane hit Baxter International plant prompts hospitals to conserve Hospitals have been taking steps to conserve IV fluid supplies since Hurricane Helene wrecked a ...
Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid bags to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV ...
Meanwhile, hospitals are facing seasonal strains on their already limited IV fluid resources, said Sam Elgawly, chief of resource stewardship at Inova, a health system in the Washington, D.C., area.
Many U.S. hospitals are conserving critical intravenous fluids to cope with a supply shortage caused by Hurricane Helene. They're changing protocols for administering drugs and hydration through IVs.