Providence Swedish assessed that its current supplies will last just one week at normal use.
May 07, 2022 at 11:00 am PDT
Iodine-based contrast, a drug used in computerized tomography scans, is in short supply, according to health care organizations in Western Washington. “CT is the workhorse for care delivery,” said University of Washington School of Medicine professor and radiology chair Dr. Dushyant Sahani. “All important decisions require that.”The contrast shortage comes from production shutdowns at Shanghai, China-based factories operated by pharmaceutical company GE Healthcare. The plants were temporarily closed due to COVID-19 lockdowns ordered by the Chinese government.
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