Healthcare facilities nationwide are experiencing sedative and anesthetics shortages, leaving some hospitals and clinics to use substitute drugs or turn to "gray market" pharmaceuticals to replenish stock, according to an Anesthesiology News report.
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Across the country, hospitals and surgery centers are facing shortages of critical anesthetics and other drugs. A survey the American Society of Anesthesiologists recently conducted found more than 90 percent of anesthesiologist respondents are currently experiencing a shortage of at…