Normally, hospitals are, well, flush with IV fluids. But right now, that isn’t the case. In addition to the physical damage to many hospitals and clinics in the region, Hurricane Helene knocked ...
Hospitals across the U.S. are feeling the impact of Hurricane Helene as experts warn of an imminent intravenous (IV) solution shortage due to the temporary shutdown of a facility in a North Carolina.
For many people with cancer, intravenous (IV) infusions of chemotherapy are their best chance at a cure. But these infusions can be inconvenient or inaccessible to patients, and some complications ...
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 ...
IV fluids are used for a wide range of medical purposes. Some, like dehydration, can be helped with alternative methods. But others, like organ transplant surgeries, cannot.
Wendy remained on IV vancomycin. Hospital staff drew a sample to identify what's called a trough level, meaning the lowest concentration of vancomycin sinks to before the next dose. The sample ...
A shortage of IV fluid in the wake of Hurricane Helene is shining a spotlight on the fragility and vulnerability of the country’s medical supply chain. Hospitals were left scrambling after the ...
The surgery was off because there wasn’t enough IV fluid to proceed. “I was having such a hard time processing what she was even saying to me, that I was just really quiet,” she says ...
The Biden administration says it has invoked the wartime powers of the Defense Production Act to speed rebuilding of a major American factory of intravenous fluids that was wrecked by Hurricane ...
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. There were a record ...
When we reviewed Diablo IV, the latest installment in the long-running action roleplaying game series last year, we said it was off to a hell of a good start. But ARPGs live and die by their ...
This week, Blizzard released Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred, an expansion to the wildly popular fantasy action-role-playing game that tasks players with slaughtering masses of screeching demons and ...