Please find the following eye protection equipment available in Southern Health-Santé Sud (SH-SS); including full face shields, half face shields, safety glasses and goggles. The SHSS Logistic and Supply product SKUs are found below for ordering, please note that some products are special order. The following items are recommended for employee personal protection and approved through Infection Control and Shared Health .

All programs and units are encouraged to order and stock eye protection PPE inventory to have available for staff as needed.

Submitted by: Debbie Rigaux, Director, Staff Development and Infection Prevention & Control

For more information, contact Debbie via email

Please be advised that as of Oct 1st, 2024, preprinted patient labels on pre-transfusion and prenatal testing can be used. This has been trialed at the Health Sciences Centre over the last 6 months with great success. Canadian Blood Services does accept these labels. If your facility uses handwritten labels these will still be accepted. There will be ongoing monitoring via RL6s and NCRs (blood blank) with direct notification to the clinical areas of occurrences if required.

Access this poster that can be printed in color and displayed where staff can see this.

It is important to stress to staff using the pre-printed labels that the initials on the blood tube label must be the same as the initials on the requisition.

Submitted by: Tamara Burnham, Collaborative Practice Lead
For more info. contact: Shana Chiborak RN Nurse Manager Blood Management, Shared Health
Charlie Cacapit Interim Technical Director, Transfusion Medicine Diagnostic Service, Shared Health

Please be advised that Cardinal product code Z8884702500 SET FEEDING ENTERNAL GRAVITY LF 1000ML is on backorder. To assist clinicians, Cardinal has provided this Kangaroo Gravity Flow Rate document.

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Submitted by: Tamara Burnham, Collaborative Practice Lead, and Tim Siran, Regional Manager-Logistics and Supply Chain Management
For more info. contact: Tim 431-356-0217 or email

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS MESSAGE TO ALL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND OTHER RELEVANT INDIVIDUALS.

Please access the letter regarding “Manitoba Prescription Birth Control Program”.

Submitted by: Public Health-Healthy Living

Please see Product Safety Alert regarding breaking/leaking with the BD 4 FR PICC product code 2194108 for the action required, risk mitigation strategy and product ordering information. Site Logistics and Supply Chain Management staff are available to assist with product changes.

Submitted by: Tamara Burnham, Collaborative Practice Lead, and Tim Siran, Regional Manager-Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
For more information contact: Tim at 431-356-0217 or email

Please see ALERT regarding back order of B.Braun straight set (no port) intravenous (IV) tubing.

SH-SS Logistics and Supply Chain Management is predicting that there is current inventory of this product to last into December 2024 so no immediate action is required. In the event product is used before backorder is resolved, please be aware that this supply disruption contains replacement products that involve a temporary clinical change in practice. Using the alternate products for medication infusions requires that the IV tubing ports be covered to meet clinical practice standards. One option for covering the ports is included in the alert.

Submitted by: Tamara Burnham, Collaborative Practice Lead, and Tim Siran, Regional Manager-Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
For more information contact: Tim at 431-356-0217 or email

Health Canada has approved the temporary import and sale of US English labeled HIKMA vials. The product is considered interchangeable with the Canadian authorized product. Prescribers are asked to refer to the Canadian product monograph as needed.

Supply of pantoprazole 40 mg injection is tenuous, and our current inventory will not meet usage demand without conservation measures.

Conservation measures:

1. Prescribers need to assess patients on pantoprazole IV therapy to step down to oral therapy as soon as clinically feasible.
2. For patients with an active gastrointestinal bleed, pantoprazole 40 mg IV twice daily for 72 hours should be prescribed, rather than running a 24-hour continuous IV infusion.
3. For acutely bleeding patients who have been scoped and found not to have a bleeding peptic ulcer, they should immediately be stepped down to an oral proton pump inhibitor.
4. Famotidine injection (H2 receptor blocker) supply is tenuous but remains an option.
5. Esomeprazole-MUPS are freely available for patients who are unable to swallow tablets whole or with tube feeds.

Oral pantoprazole tablets remain freely available.

Due to the pantoprazole injection shortage, alternate brands have been brought in; there may be different brands in use within the same facility. Please note that the JAMP brand pantoprazole injection is INCOMPATIBLE with the MINI-BAG PLUS system.

Thank you for your support of the ongoing efforts to manage drug supply issues. For questions, please contact your site pharmacy Or please contact Rizwan Ahmed via email Or Libby Gair via email.

Submitted by:  Pharmacy Program
For more info. contact:  Rizwan Ahmed, Director – Pharmacy or Libby Gair, Drug Distribution Supervisor

Now, we do not need credentials/passwords to access the SH-SS Drug Monograph page if we are using the following link:

https://www.southernhealth.ca/en/programs-and-services/pharmacy/drug-monographs

Please consider adding the above link to your browser favourites.

Submitted by:  Pharmacy
For more info. contact:  Cécile Dumesnil via email