Edwin Poots, the Minister for Health, speaking at a meeting organised by the BMA Northern Ireland in February 2013, expressed a commonly held view on solving the organ shortage; increase the supply.
Considering the current context in the PICU (manpower shortages, increased complexity of care, lack of specific knowledge, needs for quality, safety, and reproducibility), ECP for mechanical ventilation will very soon be a "must".
The quality of Type 94 Nambu pistols decreased towards the end of World War II as the Japanese faced bombing raids from allied forces and material shortages increased.
Last week hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans clogged streets and spilled into plazas nationwide as residents coordinated massive protests against President Nicolás Maduro's government, an administration they say is to blame for detrimental food shortages, increased insecurity and free speech infringement.
When however focusing on essential medicines and oncology drugs, the importance of generic injectables in shortages increased.
The shortages increased the patients delay in access of the right treatment which also predisposed them to maternal death.
Numbers of reported shortages increased from 60 drug shortages in 2005 to more than 200 reported drug shortages in 2010 [ 3, 4, 6].
Priorities for patient care should be clearly defined in advance and strategies for restructuring care delivery to compensate for staff shortages, increased patient load, potential supply disruptions and curtailed record keeping should be addressed.
' in certain areas in Irish hospitals, it is very difficult to demonstrate safe practice because of the pressure being put on staff nurses (staff shortages, increased workloads, etc. ' (RN237).
Even industrial conglomerates are feeling the pain caused by liquidity shortages, increasing borrowing costs and frozen credit lines.
