Health & Medicine

Diseases & Treatments

When medicines are in short supply

Émission

Corpus
08 April 2014

Pascal Bonnabry

HUG

Médecine, UNIGE

Formation continue , UNIGE

Hospitals in the USA have been faced with a shortage of nitroglycerin, a first-line drug in emergency departments. Swiss hospital pharmacies are continually having to cope with stock-outs.

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