Normally, hospitals are, well, flush with IV fluids. But right now, that isn’t the case. In addition to the physical damage to many hospitals and clinics in the region, Hurricane Helene knocked out ...

Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid supplies to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV ...

A shortage of IV fluid is forcing hospitals across the country to conserve and even postpone surgeries and procedures after an IV fluid production facility in North Carolina was hit by the devastating ...

Surgery schedules around the country may be washed out for several more weeks while a crucial IV and sterile fluids factory remains shut down for hurricane-related damage. People often plan ...

PUTTING PLANS IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE THIS DOESN’T IMPACT PATIENTS FROM FLORIDA TO NORTH CAROLINA. AND NOW POTENTIALLY THE NORTHEAST. HURRICANE HELENE’S IMPACTS ARE HITTING UP AND DOWN THE EAST COAST.

Philadelphia-area health systems are carefully gauging their stocks of intravenous fluids in the wake of the hurricane damage to the North Carolina plant that produces 60% of the country's supply. Dr.

Hurricane Helene’s flood-related damage to a key medical supply production facility last week in Marion, North Carolina, has serious potential to affect patient care nationally because it manufactures ...

Hospitals in the region are keeping a careful eye on their IV fluid supplies, and are using less of the precious liquid as a way to cope with supply shortages in the wake of Hurricane Helene. The ...

The latest hurricane could hit a Daytona Beach facility that provides nearly a quarter of the nation’s intravenous fluid supply. The Biden administration is rushing to evacuate bags of intravenous ...