Baxter Dialysis Deaths May Be Related To Third-Party Blood Tubes
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Baxter's Meridian dialysis machine blood tubing, made by Medisystems Corp., may have links to five deaths and two injuries, according to a Sept. 12 FDA safety notice
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