Tag: surgeries
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New heart stents for infants mean kids could avoid series of surgeries
The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a heart stent made specifically for infants and young children, a device that could help kids born with certain congenital heart defects avoid a series of open heart operations over their childhoods. About 40,000 babies are born with congenital heart defects in the U.S. each year, according to…
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IV fluid supply crunch forcing hospitals to postpone elective surgeries
A limited supply of IV fluid, stemming from damage caused by Hurricane Helene, is forcing some hospitals across the U.S. to postpone elective surgeries and other nonemergency procedures to safeguard their stock. Catastrophic flooding from Helene struck a facility owned by the nation’s largest IV fluid manufacturer, Baxter International, in North Carolina, leading to its…