IV fluids from China have different labels and instructions, Bloomberg reported, so those imports are going to dialysis centers instead of the hospital supply chain. Mike Schiller, executive ...

Intravenous fluids, or IV fluids, are a vital part of modern life-saving medicine. Depending on the fluids in question, they must often be stored at low temperatures, however, for delivery to a ...

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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 ...

The national IV fluid shortage has hit at least one hospital in Boston, which is deferring some non-urgent elective procedures. Mass General Brigham says it is delaying some non-urgent elective ...

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.

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 ...

Now, hospitals nationwide — including those in West Texas — are facing a serious IV fluid shortage. Starting Tuesday, Nov. 5, Midland Memorial Hospital (MMH) will be postponing some medical ...

Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina more than a month ago, but the impacts are still being felt in the Bay Area right now in the form of an IV fluid shortage. After the hurricane hit, the flooding ...

Baxter International, an IV fluid manufacturing plant in North Cove, North Carolina, was hit particularly hard by the hurricane, causing its supply to be damaged by flooding. The plant produces 60 ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – Hurricane Helene damaged one of the nation’s leading producers of IV fluid, leaving medical providers across the country rationing what they have. The company ...