{"id":23483,"date":"2024-10-11T08:37:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23483"},"modified":"2024-10-11T08:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:37:20","slug":"manufacturers-and-feds-work-to-stabilize-supply-of-iv-fluids-for-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23483","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturers and feds work to stabilize supply of IV fluids for hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Sydney Lupkin for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hurricane season continues to strain the national supply of intravenous fluids to hospitals and dialysis centers around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flooding from Hurricane Helene in late September shut down one of the largest suppliers of IV fluids in the U.S, a factory in Marion, N.C., about 35 miles outside of Asheville. Owned by Baxter International, the plant made products like saline, sterile water for injection and other fluids that are crucial to the health care system.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2024\/10\/11\/nx-s1-5149344\/hurricane-season-iv-fluid-supply-shortage\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2024\/10\/11\/nx-s1-5149344\/hurricane-season-iv-fluid-supply-shortage\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sydney Lupkin for NPR) Hurricane season continues to strain the national supply of intravenous fluids to hospitals and dialysis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1364],"class_list":["post-23483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-natural-disaster-contingency-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23484,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483\/revisions\/23484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}