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Baxter's Medical Products business produces intravenous products and other products used in the delivery of fluids and drugs to patients; inhalational anaesthetics; contract manufacturing services; and products to treat end-stage kidney disease, or irreversible kidney failure, including products for peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis.
Gambro is a global medical technology company that manufactures products for dialysis treatment. The company is involved in developing, manufacturing and supplying products and therapies for kidney and liver dialysis, myeloma kidney therapy [clarify], and other extracorporeal therapies for chronic and acute patients.
Hemodialysis, also spelled haemodialysis, or simply dialysis, is a process of filtering the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally. This type of dialysis achieves the extracorporeal removal of waste products such as creatinine and urea and free water from the blood when the kidneys are in a state of kidney failure.
The cause for concern stems from the closing of the Baxter International plant in North Cove, North Carolina that makes IV fluids and peritoneal dialysis solutions which most of the country relies on.
The Baxter Althane disaster in autumn 2001 was a series of 53 sudden deaths of kidney failure patients in Spain, Croatia, Italy, Germany, Taiwan, Colombia and the USA (mainly Nebraska and Texas). All had received hospital treatment with Althane hemodialysis equipment, a product range manufactured by Baxter International , USA.
Baxter sold its BioPharma Solutions business in October for $4.25 billion to investment firms. The new company, Simtra, wants to expand.
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Baxter also has a Matching Gifts Program that provides employees with an opportunity to increase the impact of their charitable contributions to eligible organizations of their choice. [7] In 2013, Baxter and The Baxter International Foundation gave more than $64 million, including product donations, cash contributions and foundation grants.