See below: The gist is, 40mg IV Pantoprazole (Protonix) on shortage until August or so. Consider using Pepcid instead.

Medical Staff,

Pantoprazole 40mg inj vials is on national backorder. The anticipated availability is in early August. To ensure continuity of patient care, Pharmacy, supported by P&T plan to substitute pantoprazole 40mg IV push daily to famotidine 20mg IV push BID for the indication of stress ulcer prophylaxis. And pantoprazole IV push to esomeprazole IV push for all other indications.

Pantoprazole 40mg inj vials will be reserved for existing PPI drip protocols.

The good news is that we do not have to adjust existing protocols or infusion pump library settings. Pharmacist will manually change the order from pantoprazole to alternative upon verification. We expect that this shortage will be relatively short.

Please call pharmacy with any questions or Michael Nnadi at 336-817-5265.