Drug shortages have become a ubiquitous occurrence at most perioperative facilities. Dealing with these shortages involves not just administrative challenges, but opens a Pandora’s Box of ethical quandaries. This chapter reviews: the causes of medication shortages from manufacturing to distribution, the ethical discussions that arise when dealing with medication shortages from varying perspectives, and the challenges of finding definitive solutions.
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Jacobs, J. S. (2015). Ethical implications of drug shortages. In Ethical Issues in Anesthesiology and Surgery (pp. 105–115). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15949-2_9
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