Posted on 01/11/2014 1:13:07 PM PST by bkopto
How is this shortage of Normal Saline going to affect your facilities?
I hear that Baxter may have production levels back to normal on the 17th January? This has the potential to be detrimental to our dialysis patients.
Fresenius are also experiencing a shortage of saline
Are your facilities making back up plans?
I hear that hospitals will be affected too!
Some of the units I work with use a vast amount of Normal saline per day
What I want to know is how are these 'drugs' in short supply?
Normal Saline, seriously how can this happen!
(Excerpt) Read more at allnurses.com ...
The following is from the National Renal Administrators Association:
"Many of our members have received notice from Fresenius Medical Care of North America regarding the critical shortage of normal saline. Due to Customs import detention issues by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), they are unable to meet the current demand for normal saline.
"As you may know, normal saline is an essential component in the treatment of patients requiring life-sustaining dialysis therapy. The interruption in the supply of this product will affect the treatment of and access to care for ESRD patients across the country."
(from http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1107293291594-111/NRAA+-+Saline+Shortage+-+FDA+-+2013-09-17.pdf )
The following is from an email the pharmacist at my hospital sent to everyone:
"The Normal Saline (NS) shortage continues. Thank you for all your hard work and diligence to reduce our usage.
• Please continue to use Lactated Ringer’s or other IV fluids if clinically appropriate. Pre-mixed fluids of NS containing potassium and D5 are available also.
• Because of the impact this has on the supply of all IV fluids, please discontinue IV’s and TKO IV’s as appropriate
• NS in 250 mL bags are available to the floors to utilized for boluses and urgent/emergent situations.
Additional updates will be sent as more information becomes available. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
Your conservation efforts are greatly appreciated."
Thanks .gov!
Probably gleeful Obama aids holding up deliveries to punish states with governors not subscribing to Medicare expansion. IVgate.
With very few exceptions most of the calamities of starvation or deprivation have been caused by communist policies. That includes the shortage in this country of flu vaccine. Probably 100,000,000 deaths in the twentieth century were caused by deliberately bad policies, the Russian wheat shortage, for example.
Policies are not generally intended to cause calamity. But that is the result. It’s always the result when people who don’t understand economies try to make them work the way they think they should work rather than how they do work.
That was what happened when the farms were turned over to the peasants, instead of the land owners who knew how to farm.
Has me thinking of unacceptable or even dangerous Chinese imports unless I'm reading between the lines wrong.
“That was what happened when the farms were turned over to the peasants,”
They weren’t really turned over. Those peasants in Russia were on a tight leash. It was the over control and the loss of a real a marketplace that destroyed the farms. But the Ukrainian disaster was deliberate by Stalin to get rid of the kulaks. Twenty million died.
They were all but slaves
Why are we importing Saline?
Salt water? W-T-F America?
Something really wrong here folks when we can’t even make salt water.
Not enough information in the article so I did a search.
According to a pharmaceutical site, Yup, bad Chinese stuff.
You also are correct. Sum Ting Wly Wong
Plus…
- 18 years between autoclave cleanings of surgical instruments.
Use coconut water instead, problem solved.
Find that 40 S&W ammo, and you will find the saline.
Where was this?
Especially with global warming and the sea levels on the rise.
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