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    U.S. May Get More Ventilators But Run Out Of Medicine For COVID-19 Patients

    There have been dramatic spikes in demand for sedatives, pain medications, paralytics, and other drugs that are crucial for patients who are on ventilators.
    by Melissa Block Apr 04, 2020 3 minutes
    Vizient, a group purchasing organization that negotiates lower prices with drug manufacturers, sent recommendations to the Food and Drug Administration, urging the agency to expand access to drugs heavily used with ventilator patients.

    As hospitals around the country fill with COVID-19 patients, medical personnel are sounding the alarm about shortages of drugs essential to those patients' care.

    "We have seen an increase in demand on pharmaceuticals that's unprecedented," says Daniel Kistner, who manages the pharmacy program for Vizient, a group purchasing organization that negotiates lower prices with drug manufacturers. "Never seen anything like this before across the whole country."

    This week, Vizient showing dramatic spikes in demand for sedatives, pain medications, paralytics, and other drugs that

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