Intravenous (IV) therapy is administering fluids directly into a vein. It benefits treatment by enabling water, medication, blood, or nutrients to access the body faster through the circulatory system ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . One liter of IV fluid can be administered prophylactically to patients over a short period (< 6 hours) following ...

Hurricane Helene flooding shut down a medical supply manufacturer, causing a nationwide shortage of IV fluids, but Cincinnati hospitals say that they haven't canceled or delayed care as a result. Even ...

Hospitals have been forced to innovate with new ways of hydrating patients and giving them medications, after a key factory that produces IV fluids flooded during Hurricane Helene. Here is another ...

Yvonne Hemz was scheduled to have a cancerous tumor removed from her kidney Tuesday. On Sunday, however, Hemze, 52, of Farmington, Minnesota, got a call from the hospital, Abbott Northwestern, telling ...

Health care providers in central Pennsylvania are keeping a wary eye on their supply of IV fluids amid a national shortage caused by Hurricane Helene. Storm damage halted production at Baxter ...