but also key medicines such as sedatives and paralytics needed for intubation and mechanical ventilation. “Many of the medicines needed during this critical time are the same drugs used in ...

Health officials fear shortage of key drugs used to put patients on oxygen ... While some hospitals have managed to build up some stock of the intubation and sedation medications, others are ...

The drugs that put you to “sleep” during surgery (general anesthesia) may also hold down your breathing. Intubation lets a machine breathe for you. That’s why your anesthesiologist (the ...

A group of seven large companies donated 3.4 million doses of intubation drugs — enough for the management of 500 beds for six weeks — to the Health Ministry. A first batch of 2.3 million was ...

Public hospitals are critically short on the drugs needed to intubate Covid-19 ... which are used to relax a patient's muscles during intubation, and 61 percent are out of sedatives, a report ...

A group of seven large companies donated 3.4 million doses of intubation drugs — enough for the management of 500 beds for six weeks — to the Health Ministry. A first batch of 2.3 million was ...

For example, your doctor may use NG intubation to help treat accidental poisoning or drug overdose. If you’ve swallowed something harmful, they can use an NG tube to remove it from your stomach ...