Baxter Dialyzers
Baxter International voluntarily recalled their dialyzers when reports of deaths were allegedly linked with its kidney dialysis product. There have been 50 deaths worldwide, including four in the U.S., that were associated with the Baxtor dialyzer. The first deaths were reported in Spain.
From January 1998 to October 2001, this machine was distributed to facilities in more than 50 countries.
What could have caused these deaths was a perfluorohydrocarbon-based performance fluid used in a manufacturing step that leaked into the patients’ blood streams. The symptoms suffered by those who did not survive the side effects of this poisoning were: shortness of breath, chest tightness, a heart attack or a stroke just hours of being treated on the Baxtor dialyzer.
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