Nationwide IV fluid bag shortage hits North Texas hospitals

📆 10/25/2024 3:06 PM

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📆 10/25/2024 3:06 PM
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The DFW Hospital Council admits local hospitals have been impacted, but they are not in panic mode yet. However, that’s not the case in other parts of Texas.

Hospitals across Texas are dealing with an IV bag shortage after one of the main production facilities in the U.S. was damaged by Hurricane Helene. It’s been one month since Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the southeast, including the Baxter IV bag facility in North Carolina. "That's where 60% of the bags that Baxter manufactures come from. So it created an immediate shortage," said Stephen Love, president of the DFW Hospital Council.

He works as an anesthesiologist in Beaumont. "People don't realize the IV shortage is huge," he said. "Because the fluids that we get, not only do we need them for surgeries, not only do we need them for dialysis, not only do we need it to mix up medicines, but people don't realize how much fluids are important to developing and delivering health care throughout the state and the United States."The U.S.

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