Clinical evidence [3] shows that Type IV allergies represent up to 28 percent of glove-related allergic reactions, with up to 90 percent of these Type IV allergies due to vulcanization ...

SALEM — Area hospitals are taking steps to conserve certain types of intravenous fluids as a result of shortages caused by Hurricane Maria. The Department of Public Health issued an advisory ...

N ew research calls into question what’s in those IV bags that nearly every hospitalized patient gets. Using a different intravenous fluid instead of the usual saline greatly reduced the risk of ...

What the quality statement means for different audiences. Service providers (hospitals) ensure that protocols are in place so that term neonates, children and young people are not given hypotonic ...

A person can use intravenous (IV) and nasal cannulas both in the hospital or at home. This article will describe what cannulas are and explain the difference between IV and nasal cannulas.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence is rescheduling some elective procedures and surgeries at its hospitals amid the IV shortage. The number and types of postponements will vary by hospital, the system ...

Several hospitals in Washington state, including Overlake Medical Center (OMC) in Bellevue, started conserving after Hurricane Helene damaged the nation's major supplier of IV fluids in North ...

IV fluid shortage across the country impacts patients and hospitals in Colorado 02:40 Ralph Owen was just four days away from receiving surgery in Colorado. "I got the phone call.

Hospitals in Oregon are taking steps to conserve their supply of IV fluids, normally a cheap and readily available type of medications, after flooding from Hurricane Helene has knocked out a key U ...

Virginia hospitals and health care facilities’ IV fluid bag supplies won’t be as short as anticipated after storm damage to a North Carolina factory that makes the critical medical supplies.