U.S. hospitals, FDA grapple with shortages of life-saving drugs
Didi Martinez, Brenda Breslauer and Stephanie Gosk
The meetings, according to Dr. Paul Biddinger, chief of the division of emergency preparedness, have become part of a new reality — one in which the hospital has to prepare for running short of critical drugs. The Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has assembled an Emergency Preparedness Team to deal with issues such as drug shortages. The team, made up of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other hospital officials, has met several times over the past two years to discuss ongoing shortages.In the case of Heparin, said Biddinger, the hospital got as close as two weeks away from having to cancel lifesaving cardiac surgery.
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