An amber alert has been issued by New South Wales health officials for certain dosages of a life-saving blood-thinning drug and a sleep-inducing anaesthetic.
abc.net.au/news/amber-alerts-issued-in-nsw-for-drugs-in-critically-low-supply/102195706An amber alert has been issued by New South Wales health officials for certain dosages of a life-saving, blood-thinning drug and a sleep-inducing anaesthetic.
"Medications like heparin are critically important for the running of hospitals and delivering the right medications to the right patients in hospital," Dr Bonning said. The TGA lists the shortage for the heparin dose as critical, and supplies will not return until the end of June.A second amber safety alert has been issued by NSW Health, this time relating to the registered medicine suxamethonium chloride 100 mg/2 mL injection, which is also currently unavailable due to manufacturing issues.There are alternatives but not for some conditions.
NSW Health said supplies of this drug were also critically low and it hoped normal supplies would resume in the months ahead.But Dr Bonning said there was optimism ahead.
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