Intravenous fluid shortages appear to be affecting the majority of the nation’s healthcare providers, who as a result are already beginning to cancel procedures, survey data published Thursday show.

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 ...

Home infusion companies, like the one Jamie Aguilar has relied on for nearly 42 years, have struggled to access IV fluids in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. A Virginia woman with a rare medical ...

U.S. hospitals are taking steps to conserve their supplies of intravenous (IV) fluids after Hurricane Helene took down a major manufacturing plant in North Carolina and the supplier said it will ...

Dr. Peter Bailey: I’ve been starting IVs for 30 years and have gotten pretty good at it. The things that I do that most other clinicians don’t is to get the hand (the preferred first puncture site ...

Amy Reighard, RN, MSN, CGRN, clinical director of Allegheny Regional Endoscopy Center in Altoona, Pa., describes three ways her ambulatory surgery center worked to improve IV start times for ...

On a Thursday evening in early October, Jennifer Fina, a registered nurse at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, received an unexpected phone call. A department in the hospital had been ...

Leiters Health has recalled 33 lots of IV bags filled with vancomycin, phenylephrine and fentanyl because the solutions might contain double the amount labeled. The drugmaker’s semi-automated IV bag ...

Many adult hospital inpatients need intravenous (IV) fluid therapy to prevent or correct problems with their fluid and/or electrolyte status. Deciding on the optimal amount and composition of IV ...