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Couldn't find this info in the thread. Shortages in key meds used for patients that are ventilated announced by the FDA. (i.e. Dexmedetomidine, Etomidate, Midazolam, Propofol, Cisatracurium)
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Details can be found here under the new and updated tab:
(archive doesn't work on the main hub of the FDA Drug Shortage website for some odd reason, as in tabs don't work. here it is anyway: http://archive.li/WkbIF)
A select few companies DO supply the drugs fine, at least according to the FDA, but I can only think of the price gouging.
Not having the anti-anxiety and dissociative drugs available could be a real problem. I can't imagine what it would be like to have all your faculties while a tube is stuck all the way down your throat into your lungs and is in full control of your own breathing. Probably hurts like a bitch too.