The nation with the world’s highest per capita health costs has been experiencing all manner of drug shortages for years. Most recently, hospitals have even been fighting to get enough sterile saline, known in the business as Sodium Chloride 0.9% Injection (IV normal saline).
Yes, that’s the simple salt solution that’s used to start IVs and sometimes to dilute other drugs.
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January 15, 2015 3:12 PM
Hi David, Thanks for covering this. It’s the kind of thing terrifies me as a patient – because you can’t control or make a “decision” about it. Doctors may not even be aware of changes in suppliers…