Is There Still An Intravenous (IV) Bag Shortage?
Introduction
Long standing drug shortages have become a major threat to public health and patient safety. Even though increased awareness and mitigation strategies, the united state has experience shortage of many lifesaving drugs and other supplies essential to patient care. It is not very expensive product, it is simply water but proper requirements have to keep for manufacturing process i.e., sterile, progeny free, and free from particular matter. There are manufacturing demand are challenging, because very large quantity are needed that is 40 million bags per month. It is required for virtually all hospitalized patients, medication infusion or as a hydration, irrigation fluid. There is shortage of small volume saline bags became dire almost immediately after Baxter Puerto Rico manufacturing plant was hit by hurricane Maria. It supplies approximately 50% of US.
Hospitals with this product that is used as a diluents to deliver a variety of parenteral medications. Even though this tremendous need, Baxter has no redundancy in manufacturing capacity for small volume saline bags. And other two saline suppliers have not been able to rising there production enough to make up for the shortage. Even saline produce by B. Braun was already in short supply before the hurricane, as the company worked to correct manufacturing qualities problem. These shortage had actually begun in 2014, affecting large as well as small volume products. Large volume saline are used as maintenance or resuscitation fluids or for irrigation. Even though sum shortage of large volume solution are attributable to problems at manufacturing facilities, rising demand for intravenous fluids due to a severe influenza season had also contributed to the current short supply.
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Saline shortage can affect patient in various way when medication that are typically administered as short infusions are given by intravenous push or when providers choose less familiar but more readily available product as substitute medication error and adverse drug event can result. The problem of shortage is fixing to difficult and requires a multifaceted approach entailing both focusing on current shortage and working to prevent future once. Not congress nor the food and drug administration can force any manufacturer to produce a medication, no matter his how life saving the product or how critical the need.
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Reasons for the Shortage:
v Most of the shortage occur with supply unable to meet demand.
v Sometime delay in manufacturing process is also the big reason of shortage.
v Most drug shortage occur with older, generic, injectable medications that are products by a small number of suppliers.
v Most of the shortage are caused by a quality or production problem at the manufacturing facilities.
Precaution for the Shortage
v we have to be used oral medications when they can, stopping IV bags once a patient no longer requires them and looking to Canadian to help fill the gap .
v Other method including a different sized bag when possible or swapping dextrose for saline.
v We can manage the shortage very well by executive director of pharmacy for acute care services at community health network in Indianapolis.
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Scope of Intravenous Solution Market:
v Consequent decrease in physical activity and proper nutrition has led to increase in the incidences of chronic disease, which in turn has increasing the demand for Intravenous solution.
v In developed countries there has been significant growth in the production of fourth fluids.
v This fluid bag market side will grow at a CAGR of 6% add and Incremental growth of dollar 667.51 MN during 2022-24.
v The growing prevalence of chronic disease such as the increase of cholera and increasing acceptance of vitamin – C intravenous for colorectal cancer are the most important driver propulsive market growth.
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