A majority of nurses — 83 percent — reported that they further dilute certain IV push medications for adult patients prior to administration, according to a survey conducted by the Institute for Safe ...

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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 ...

Pharmacy leaders at area hospitals are preserving supplies and crafting backup plans to keep a national shortage of IV bags from affecting medications given to patients. The shortage involves small ...

The new approval allows for the 2000mg loading dose to be administered as an IV push rather than a 30-minute IV infusion. The prescribing information for Trogarzo ® (ibalizumab-uiyk) has been updated ...

ISMP can envision other problems not mentioned in response to the survey when using prefilled cartridges as vials. Nurses may want to dilute small volumes of IV push medications to aid slow ...

A nurse places a patient's chemotherapy medication on an intravenous stand at a hospital in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous ...

Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid bags to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV ...