By Mike McEvoy
TheAmerican Society of Health-System Pharmacists(ASHP) releasedan urgent call to actionon March 20, 2014 describing immediate actions healthcare providers, hospitals, andEMSservices can take to alleviate the current acute shortage of large volume intravenous solutions. No doubt, your department has experience shortages of 1000 mL bags of fluids. If not, you will. The ASHP predicts this national shortage will continue until May or June 2014. Read the letter from the ASHP to learn what you and your department can and should be doing to help patients nationwide.
MIKE McEVOY, PhD, NRP, RN, CCRN is the EMS Coordinator for Saratoga County, New York, and the188金宝搏是正规吗EMS editor. He is a nurse clinician in thecardiacsurgical ICU at Albany Medical Center in New York where he also co-chairs the hospital resuscitation committee. Mike is a paramedic supervisor for Clifton Park & Halfmoon Ambulance and the chief medical officer for West Crescent Fire Department. He is an EMS Section Board Member for the International Association of Fire Chiefs and a popular speaker at Fire, EMS, and medical conference worldwide.
