Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado hospitals are working overtime to find stock and are changing their daily practices to protect patients in the wake of an urgent national shortage ...

During a recent walk around the emergency room where I work, I noted the number of patients with bags of intravenous fluids hanging above them. Almost everyone had one. Our ER in Boston isn't unique.

A recent shortage of intravenous (IV) solutions, most acutely affecting normal saline solutions, has prompted concerns across the nation. This most recent incident adds to a growing list of products ...

Neither intravenous (IV) sodium bicarbonate nor oral N-acetylcysteine (NAC) were superior to IV saline in reducing 90-day adverse events or contrast-associated acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients ...

Shortages of intravenous fluids, worsened by Hurricane Helene damage at Baxter's Marion, North Carolina, manufacturing plant, are expected to continue for months, although allocations to customers and ...

A shortage of IV bags linked to hurricane damage in Puerto Rico has left hospitals across the nation, including in Alaska, scrambling over the past several months to find alternative ways to ...

Share on Facebook. Opens in a new tab or window Share on X. Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window SAN ANTONIO -- Hospitalized patients given IV balanced fluids ...

To determine the efficacy of heparinized saline administered as intermittent flush on functional duration of the peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) in neonates. A total of 120 neonates were ...

Newark, New Castle, USA, July 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As per the report by Growth Plus Reports, the normal saline for parenteral use market was valued at US$ 3.28 billion in 2022 and is expected ...

IV bags filled with what's called normal saline are used to treat problems ranging from vomiting to lightheadedness. But evidence for the use of... During a recent walk around the emergency room where ...