In this episode, is the current shortage of saline impacting your practice? The main manufacturing facilities that supply much of small volume parenteral solutions to the United States were severely damaged when Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico in September 2017. We discuss what has been done to minimize the impact of these shortages on nurses and patients in various practice settings.

Guests: Dan Heaton, Pharm D, Clinical Pharmacist

Intermountain Home Care and Hospice of South Jordan, UT

Valerie Grapensteter, DNP, RN, AC-AGCNS

Associate Director of Clinical Practice, Rochester Regional Health, Rochester, NY

In this episode, is the current shortage of saline impacting your practice? The main manufacturing facilities that supply much of small volume parenteral solutions to the United States were severely damaged when Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico in September 2017. We discuss what has been done to minimize the impact of these shortages on nurses and patients in various practice settings.

Resources:
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Drug Shortages: https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/Drug...
ASHP and the University of Utah Drug Information Service 
Small-Volume Parenteral Solutions Shortages Suggestions for Management and Conservation
https://www.fda.gov/downloads/...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition (SIPC) One and Only Campaign 
http://www.oneandonlycampaign....