HAVE TO RATION THIS SOLUTION, SOME ALREADY POSTPONING ALL BUT EMERGENCY SITUATIONS TTHA REQUIRE CT SCANS. JENNIFER C: A COVID SHORTAGE OF WHAT’S KNOWN AS "IODINIZED CONTRAST MEDIA" IS TIED TO THE ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Hospitals around the country are facing a shortage of a certain kind of dye used to assist in reading computed tomography, commonly referred to as a CAT or CT scan. The dye, ...

Imaging technologist and patient during a CT scan at Radiology/Imaging Services at UWMC-Roosevelt in Seattle. Clare McLean UWMC Some hospitals in Washington are rationing medical scans and rethinking ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Contrast media, a liquid dye injected before some CT scans and other tests, is in short supply. "It's not going to be something that's going to be resolved in the next few days, even ...

In April 2022, a shutdown of Shanghai due to China’s “zero COVID” policy caused a global shortage of iodinated contrast media produced by GE Healthcare. Many health systems, roughly half the market ...

Hospitals are just learning about and are very concerned that a shortage of the fluid they use to make CT scans and MRIs more readable may last until late June. For example, The University of Alabama ...

In some pain interventions, contrast media is used for imaging that visualizes the needle tip location for clinicians. The temporary closure of a contrast media manufacturing facility in China for a ...

AJR: resources required to warm iohexol 350 to body temperature before injection for CT may not be warranted, given lack of observed practical benefit “The data suggest that maintaining iohexol 350 at ...