To minimize hypotension and to maintain urine output, many surgical patients are given large volumes of intravenous fluids perioperatively. Because large fluid volumes can create complications ...

Manufacturers of IV fluids are working to restore supply to the levels attained before two back-to-back hurricanes knocked ...

"If they come in with IV fluids that the paramedics have started, let's continue it," Dr. Green told KFF Health News. "If it saves half a bag of fluids, so be it, but it adds up over time." ...

He has directed hospital staff to use up the entire IV bag before starting another. “If they come in with IV fluids that the paramedics have started, let’s continue it. If it saves half a bag ...

Now, some patients, depending on the case, are allowed to drink fluids up to two hours prior to ... impact of the shortage by retaining IV fluids that were set to expire, state health officials ...

ABILENE, Texas — Hospitals have been forced to ration IV fluids and find new ways of hydrating patients after a factory that produces IV fluids flooded during Hurricane Helene. Clay Lohse ...

But for now, some of the new strategies just make sense to him. He has directed hospital staff to use up the entire IV bag before starting another. “If they come in with IV fluids that the paramedics ...