Last spring, almost every drug class used for mechanical ventilation—sedatives, analgesics, paralytics and vasopressors—was in short supply. Today, there are still shortages, but the problem has eased.
“In the last couple of months, we have not really heard a lot about those drugs being problematic. The supply chain has had the chance to recover and the manufacturers have been able to increase production. It’s been back to normal baseline with some intermittent shortages