Drug Warning: Heparin
Manufactured and marketed by: Baxter International
Purpose: A widely used anticoagulant that has many applications including keeping blood thin for dialysis procedures.
Side Effects Reported
- Baxter has recalled nearly all of its Heparin products. This recall came in the wake of reports of severe adverse reactions in patients who received Heparin injections. Twenty-one deaths have been identified as potentially linked to Heparin injections.
- All of the drugs that have been reported to create complications have been linked to lots that were manufactured in a pharmaceutical plant in China owned by Scientific Protein Laboratories, one of Baxter’s primary suppliers.
Industry Report
Officials within Baxter claimed to be surprised that the manufacturing facilities in China were not subject to regulatory review, and said that it was not uncommon for them to have limited information about the facilities of their suppliers. They issued the recall "as a precautionary measure due to a higher than usual number of reports of adverse patient reactions involving the product" and have since suspended production of the drugs.
Seeger Weiss is not currently pursuing lawsuits on this drug, but its drug warnings will remain on our radar.
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