Specialties CRNA
Published Dec 1, 2013
wtbcrna, MSN, DNP, CRNA
5,126 Posts
"Arfaei said he expects U.S. approval of sugammadex by the second quarter of 2014 and forecast worldwide sales of $574 million in 2015.
The drug is already approved in 50 countries, including Japan."
http://medcitynews.com/2013/09/fda-notifies-merck-concerns-sugammadex-drug-study/
ssrhythm
79 Posts
Maybe this explains why there is currently a "shortage" of glyco that our pharmacy can only get through one "black-market" type of distributor for...get this...$600.00 for a box of 20 1cc vials! There has to be some kind of law being trampled on here. Anyhoo, this news goes a long way toward explaining the current shortage.
It must be a regionally shortage. We haven't experienced any problems with shortages of glyco, yet...
Goose Xx, MSN, RN, EMT-P, CRNA
102 Posts
We were also told that we had a recent shortage.
That will be something to look forward to. It seems to take us a couple months lag time to see the shortages here in Alaska and then it takes a couple of months longer to see them resolved than the rest of the US.