Nationwide Shortage of Dobutamine: Heart Related Medication

[Toespi]

Be alert! There is a critical nationwide shortage of Dobutamine, used for heart failure, blood pressure and stress testing, expected to last through October.

[Toespi]

My husband, a heart transplant person, was scheduled for his six month evaluation and medically assisted stress test at MUSC (Medical University of South Carolina). We received a call that the testing would have to be rescheduled due to a critical shortage of Dobutamine and they are saving what they have for only emergency treatment. The shortage is expected to last through October.

[Robert DeLong]

Is it manufactured in China?

[BipolarBob]

Trump wanted essentials like drugs made here.

[Perseverando]

My husband, a heart transplant person, was scheduled for his six month evaluation and medically assisted stress test at MUSC (Medical University of South Carolina). We received a call that the testing would have to be rescheduled due to a critical shortage of Dobutamine and they are saving what they have for only emergency treatment. The shortage is expected to last through October.

So sorry to hear that. We are supposed to get a MUSC facility of some sort in Indian Land, SC. They have the land, but no idea if and/or when they will break ground for it.

You may want to contact your SC legislators and US Congressman for assistance, and maybe our RINO US Senators. (It is an election year for Tim Scott.)

[Toespi]

Thanks! My husband is twelve years out of transplant, so it isn’t critical for him, it is routine and they will schedule a nuclear stress test instead

Just wanted to give others, who may use it for heat failure and other issues a heads up on the shortage. I told the PA who called that this is terrible in the USA. She said they are stunned and really causing serious problems.

[dljordan]

“Is it manufactured in China?”

My first thought. The manufacturers are downstream from the Three gorges Dam.

[Getready]

ASHP website indicates two suppliers of dobutamine infusion. Baxter and Pfizer. But manufacturers of the chemical compound itself are from Germany, Italy, Japan, India. I couldn’t find a Chinese company, but who knows if they own some of the companies who make it. U..S. needs to make all essential pharmaceuticals, hardware, and even 99 cent store items. Need to make or obtain our own oil, gas, food, electricity in the USA. Regulations and taxes are driving business out of u.s.

[Robert DeLong]

Well, that explains it then. I saw this decades ago, that farming everything out to China was a major danger for this nation.

[LibsRJerks]

Pathetic. This country is going to HELL in a handbasket!!!

When are the grownups back in charge? What are we all going to do — this will only escalate into shortages of all kinds of medications.