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new shortage????????
hillbille
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got call yesterday from the doctors office who is gonna be doing my eye surgery, corneal replacement, next month. I had a hard time understanding her over the phone, but she was giving me the info about the surgery and what I needed to do in the days before with medications and such. She said twice about being sure I was hydrated in the days before the surgery as there was a national IV shortage? I had to ask her twice more to be sure I heard what she said and still find it hard to believe there can be a shortage of IV's in the country. That is one of the dumbest and most dangerous things I have heard in years……..
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Since they're not making gunpowder or primers anymore, maybe they could contract those companies to tool up to make IV's. (I miss the green font).
Apparently the only place in the US that makes IV fluid is in North Carolina and it was damaged/destroyed in the hurricane. Hospitals here are canceling and rescheduling non life threatening/emergency surgeries.
Cat surgery piece of cake had mine a month ago
Plus one, same here. News reports for the reason too.
not cataract surgery, already had that, this is corneal replacement, little more involved…….
Will be sending prayer and best wishes to go to the doctors with you.
HPD nailed it. Helene did a number on the Baxter IV solution plant. some of it won't be dack on for a few more months.
Perhaps not.......
For over 10 years, my daughter has been formulating large batch quantities of fluids used in eye surgical procedures, for the Novartis Corp. in Fort Worth.
Very strict procedural requirements.
I think the plant that was flooded was the LARGEST producer. still you think the smaller places could temporary up production………
where do they get a corneal replacements ?
cadavers, I think…
That plant was the newest/biggest, but there's 6 or 7 more in the states, and 13 more world wide. Baxter is a division of Cardinal Health that I worked for, delivering literal tons of it. Every morning my back reminds me of the thousands of 40lb boxes I had to hand stack at hospitals and dialysis clinics. It has a short life expiration date on it, and I've had to haul 53ft trailer loads to the dump. Wasn't uncommon to dump $200K worth in a day, once a month.