Severe shortages of parenteral nutrition (PN) components are rigorously testing clinicians’ efforts to provide safe and effective nutrition support for some of their highest-risk patients, including neonates and those with long-term or permanent intestinal failure caused by complications of surgery, cancer and other diseases.
The University of Utah Drug Information Service is tracking 37 shortages related to PN. “Everything from the key components of amino acids, water and dextrose