Hurricane damages IV supply chain, forcing hospitals to use Gatorade amid life-saving fluid shortages.
Hospitals are facing a shortage of life-saving IV fluids due to damage caused by Hurricane Helene – and some have resorted to giving patients Gatorade as a makeshift treatment. Baxter International, one of the largest IV solution suppliers in the US, provides roughly 60 percent of the intravenous solutions used every day during surgeries, in …