{"id":115962,"date":"2024-10-19T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T06:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115962"},"modified":"2024-10-19T13:56:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T06:56:58","slug":"local-hospitals-medical-centers-conserving-iv-fluid-during-nationwide-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115962","title":{"rendered":"Local hospitals, medical centers conserving IV fluid during nationwide shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 <\/span>Local hospitals and surgery centers are dealing with a nationwide IV shortage in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.<\/p>\n<p>The four major hospitals in our region &#8211; OHSU, Kaiser Permanente, Providence, and Legacy, all said they are conserving IV fluids and monitoring their inventories. OHSU has already postponed some surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of manufacturers are trying to be very judicious about where they send fluids to, making sure that everybody\u2019s getting a little bit and not one big facility is buying up all the fluids,\u201d said Lindsay Dye, a physician\u2019s assistant at Evergreen Urgent Care in northwest Portland.<\/p>\n<p>60 percent of the nation&#8217;s IV fluid comes from Baxter International&#8217;s North Carolina plant, which was ravaged by floodwaters during Hurricane Helene, and is closed for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the plants are looking outside the country to try to get fluids, so it is surprising to me that we&#8217;re so reliant,\u201d said Dye.<\/p>\n<p>Dye said their main goal is to keep people out of the emergency room. There&#8217;s a simple way you can help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrying to stay healthy from infectious diseases so washing hands, wearing masks when it&#8217;s appropriate,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Matthew Lewis is a plastic surgeon at the Pearl Surgicenter in northwest Portland. He said the small independent surgery center gets an allocation of 24 bags per month based on its number of surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo all the rest of those bags have to be ordered from private vendors,\u201d he said. \u201cWith the shortage, those costs are going up a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although most of the surgeries Dr. Lewis does are elective, he said when hospitals cancel surgeries, it has a domino effect on smaller practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore often than not we\u2019re having to do the same thing because they are prioritized and so if they are starting to have to cancel cases because they can\u2019t get supplies, very frequently we\u2019re having to do the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewis said if you have upcoming surgery that gets postponed, please be patient because sometimes there isn&#8217;t another solution other than waiting until supplies become available.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katu.com\/news\/local\/local-hospitals-medical-centers-conserving-iv-fluid-during-nationwide-shortage\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Local hospitals and surgery centers are dealing with a nationwide IV shortage in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. 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