Health Council: shortages critical

Critical Shortages Create Opportunities for Critical Care Anesthesiologists

Critical care medicine remains an integral part of inpatient care in every hospital and, with the aging population and advances in clinical care, the need for critical care physicians will continue to expand. As a result, the opportunities for anesthesiologists with subspecialty training in critical care medicine will continue to grow. There are predictions that the demand for highly trained cr...

The ACCP Council on Critical Care.

South Carolina Health Coordinating Council.

Shortages of antibiotics, antivirals, and vaccines threaten the public health.

In this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Strausbaugh et al. [1] present the results of 2 surveys of the Emerging Infections Network (EIN) performed in 1999 and 2000 regarding shortages of certain antibiotics. The EIN is a group of nearly 800 infectious disease physicians from all regions of the country, representing individual , group, and academic practices. They are supported by a contr...

Drug shortages in health care institutions: perspectives in early 2014.

The year 2012 was perceived by many stakeholders as the worst ever with respect to drug shortages in Canada. Following receipt of a warning letter 1 from the US Food and Drug Administration in November 2011, Novartis International AG, on behalf of its Canadian operations at Sandoz Canada, issued a customer letter 2 in mid-February 2012 indicating that the company's production capacity would be ...