Via ASBURY PARK PRESS – A report in today’s Asbury Park Press the RJW Barnabas medical system is running out of the life saving drugs including the benzodiazepine sedative midazolam and opioid fentanyl, both of which are critical to patients on ventilators.
Before you get into the ambulance or get driven to a hospital, this report means you might want to call ahead. The last thing you want to do is be put on a ventilator in a hospital that might run out of the drugs needed to save your life! Find out which hospitals are running low and which ones are stocked.