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Baxter Heparin Side Effects

Name: Heparin
Generic: Heparin sodium
Manufacturer: Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Date approved: 1972
Status: Recalled
Approved uses: Anticoagulant

Off-Label uses: N/A
Side effects:
  • Possible allergic reaction
  • Thrombocytopenia
  • Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT) and Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis (HITT)
  • Hypersensitivity
  • possible hemorrhage
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Baxter Heparin

Heparin (also known as heparin sodium) is a blood thinner administered in surgery and other critical care situations to prevent clots. It is crucial in dialysis and heart surgery, and is used for the bedridden. Heparin acts as an anticoagulant (blood thinner) by preventing the formation of clots and extension of existing clots within the blood. While heparin does not break down clots that have already formed, it allows the body's natural clot mechanisms to work normally to break down clots that have already formed.

Heparin, which has been manufactured since 1930, is administered to millions of patients yearly. Heparin can cause some side effects, including most seriously heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT syndrome). HITS is caused by an immunological reaction that makes platelets collect within the blood vessels, thereby using up coagulation factors. Formation of clots can lead to thrombosis, while the loss of coagulation factors and platelets may result in bleeding. HITS can (rarely) occur shortly after heparin is given, but also when a person has been on heparin for a long while.

Most recently, Baxter Healthcare Corporation (who made almost half in the herparin used in the U.S.) was forced to halt sales of its multiple-dose injectable heparin. The FDA reported that, since the end of 2007, it received about 350 reports of health problems associated with Baxter heparin, with 40 percent deemed serious. Allergic reactions included difficulty breathing, nausea, vomiting, excessive sweating, and rapidly falling blood pressure, which in some cases led to life-threatening shock and, in four cases, death. It has been determined that the potentially toxic Baxter heparin was produced in a Chinese factory that was never properly inspected by the FDA.

News Outlet Reports of Typical Heart Drugs Disrupting Blood Thinners

A study released in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology recently found that calcium channel blocker drugs that are often given as a method of treatment for heart conditions, may reduce the effects of blood thinning drugs such as Plavix and other similar blood thinners. The Texas Heart Institute explains that a blood thinner is a prescription drug that is used to decrease the following: heart attack stroke blockages in arteries clumps of blood (blood clots) that are forming, growing Blood thinners are described as anticoagulants, which, despite that they are called blood thinners, actually do not thin the blood, but rather "decrease the blood’s ability to clot and decreased clotting keeps fewer harmful blood clots from forming and from blocking blood vessels," according to the Texas Heart Institute’s Heart Information Center. During the study, Plavix, a type of blood thinner, was used during testing, but there are an array of blood thinners available on the market today, some of which include the following, according to WebMD: Heparin Lovenox Fragmin Plavix Coumadin Of these types of blood thinners, is the rather controversial Heparin, also known as heparin sodium, which was released in 1972 from Baxter Healthcare Corporation. read more

Tainted Heparin Disputes Continue Between United States and China

Officials in China and the United States continue to point fingers and place blame on one another over batches of a contaminated blood-thinning drug, which may have been responsible for nearly 90 deaths since January 2008. Some individuals who were administered Heparin made by Baxter International Inc. Baxter’s Heparin is an anticoagulant used during surgical procedures, such as heart surgery and kidney dialysis, to thin blood and avoid the development of deep vein thrombosis, also known as blood clots, which can be deadly in a medical procedure by causing pulmonary embolism (blockage of the blood vessels). read more

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Baxter Heparin Jury Verdicts

______ Defense verdict - Medical Malpractice Medical Malpractice - Stroke - Diagnosis - Hospital Negligence - Defense Verdict

______ $825,000 See Editor's Note. - Medical Malpractice Medical Malpractice - Deep Vein Thrombosis - Treatment - Hospital Negligence - Wrongful Death - Arbitration - Settlement

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Baxter Heparin FDA Information

Information on Heparin Sodium Injection

FDA Drug Safety Podcasts: Important Warnings and Instructions for Heparin Sodium Injection (Baxter) - Full Version

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Baxter Heparin News Articles

Avoiding allergic drug reactions with a supramolecular string of pearls

My Story, by Pamela Lynn

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Baxter Heparin Newsfeeds

Ny nano-systemer, der kan bindende heparin så effektivt som protamin

New Rapid Test for Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia

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Baxter Heparin Wikipedia

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

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