Baxter international case study
Case Study- Detecting Dialysis Death’s
In mid-August 2001, four elderly people were suffering from kidney failure so they underwent Dialysis at Madrid Hospital. After dialysis the people became seriously ill and they died after the Dialysis treatment. The news about the death of patients did not come out. As per laws the hospital sent a legal notice to the maker of the dialysis filter. The company, which was making the dialysis filter, is a US based company - BAXTER INTERNATIONAL. Baxter international recently acquired a Swedish maker of dialysis products named Althin Medical AB.
A week later, the same incident took place in Valencia, Spain where six Dialysis patients died after the dialysis treatment. Regional Health office investigated about the death of the six patients and discovered that the death was due to the implement of the Dialysis filter, which was made by Baxter International. The news about the death of patients came out in the news channel but it was darkened by the twin tower attack news (9/11).
Baxter International retracted the two lots of Dialysis Filters that were present in the market and they paused the current production of the filters. Baxter conducted an Internal Investigation and independent tests from TUV product service. After a period of 9 weeks, they found that there were no issues with the dialysis filter manufactured by them. ”We do not see any connection between the dialysis and the deaths, ” said Frank Pitzer of TUV. Even though after the announcement that there were no issues with the filters, more people were dying
On October 13,Alan Heller the recently named head of Baxter’s renal division was at a conference in San Francisco has received a voicemail regarding the death of three to six people on average per week in Croatia due to kidney failure. In between 8th and 13th October, 23 Croatian kidney patients died in several hospitals in which 21 people used filters made by Baxter. This event made the Headlines in the
In mid-August 2001, four elderly people were suffering from kidney failure so they underwent Dialysis at Madrid Hospital. After dialysis the people became seriously ill and they died after the Dialysis treatment. The news about the death of patients did not come out. As per laws the hospital sent a legal notice to the maker of the dialysis filter. The company, which was making the dialysis filter, is a US based company - BAXTER INTERNATIONAL. Baxter international recently acquired a Swedish maker of dialysis products named Althin Medical AB.
A week later, the same incident took place in Valencia, Spain where six Dialysis patients died after the dialysis treatment. Regional Health office investigated about the death of the six patients and discovered that the death was due to the implement of the Dialysis filter, which was made by Baxter International. The news about the death of patients came out in the news channel but it was darkened by the twin tower attack news (9/11).
Baxter International retracted the two lots of Dialysis Filters that were present in the market and they paused the current production of the filters. Baxter conducted an Internal Investigation and independent tests from TUV product service. After a period of 9 weeks, they found that there were no issues with the dialysis filter manufactured by them. ”We do not see any connection between the dialysis and the deaths, ” said Frank Pitzer of TUV. Even though after the announcement that there were no issues with the filters, more people were dying
On October 13,Alan Heller the recently named head of Baxter’s renal division was at a conference in San Francisco has received a voicemail regarding the death of three to six people on average per week in Croatia due to kidney failure. In between 8th and 13th October, 23 Croatian kidney patients died in several hospitals in which 21 people used filters made by Baxter. This event made the Headlines in the