{"id":6850,"date":"2017-05-23T11:15:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T15:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6850"},"modified":"2017-05-23T11:15:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T15:15:01","slug":"baking-soda-shortage-forces-hospitals-to-postpone-surgeries-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6850","title":{"rendered":"Baking soda shortage forces hospitals to postpone surgeries, treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Mackenzie Bean for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hospitals nationwide are delaying major operations and chemotherapy due to a major shortage of a simple, yet crucial drug \u2014 sodium bicarbonate solution, reports <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/21\/health\/sodium-bicarbonate-solution-critical-shortage-hospitals.html?_r=0\">The New York Times.<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/supply-chain\/baking-soda-shortage-forces-hospitals-to-postpone-surgeries-treatments.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The 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.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Mackenzie Bean for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Hospitals nationwide are delaying major operations and chemotherapy due to a major shortage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850","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=6850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6851,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions\/6851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}