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BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORP

Manufacturer adverse-event records for BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORP come from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database via openFDA, refreshed March 2026 - see our methodology. Not medical advice.

FDA MAUDE device safety record · 1992–2023 · heavy-book · typical Death-code · injury-light

Injury-mix signature

BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORP is lighter on Injury codes

Injury-coded event_type share is 0.6% (injury-light tercile) beside 0.08% Death-coded (typical). Volume band: heavy.

What the Injury-mix reading shows for BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORP

The standout signal for BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORP is Injury-mix: 0.6% Injury-coded (injury-light) beside 0.08% Death-coded, on a heavy-book footprint.

As a heavy-book manufacturer, portfolio size and reporting obligations inflate absolute counts - pair BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORP with device-family pages before treating company totals as a safety verdict. Event_type Death and Injury are one code per report; Patient Outcomes below use a separate FDA population.

Reports span 20 device types, led in this extract by Malfunction at 51,197 (99.0% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 38,253 reports across 30 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

51,703
Total Reports
41
Event-type Death
333
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 51,197 (99.0%)
Injury 333 (0.6%)
Other 92 (0.2%)
Death 41 (0.1%)
40 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

51,124 (98.7%)
Other 274 (0.5%)
Required Intervention 175 (0.3%)
Hospitalization 74 (0.1%)
R 42 (0.1%)
Death 36 (0.1%)
O 29 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 15 (0.0%)
H 6 (0.0%)
L 5 (0.0%)
Disability 4 (0.0%)
S 2 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.0%)

Devices (20)

Device Reports
Pump, Infusion 50,239
System, Peritoneal, Automatic Delivery 372
Set, Administration, For Peritoneal Dialysis, Disposable 263
Set, Administration, Intravascular 253
Dialyzer, Capillary, Hollow Fiber 103
Dialyzer, High Permeability With Or Without Sealed Dialysate System 96
System, Dialysate Delivery, Single Patient 64
Pump, Infusion, Elastomeric 39
Pump, Infusion, Pca 38
Set, I.V. Fluid Transfer 25
Separator, Automated, Blood Cell, Diagnostic 22
Container, I.V. 21
Catheter, Intravascular, Therapeutic, Short-Term Less Than 30 Days 19
Catheter, Flow Directed 10
Stopcock, I.V. Set 10
Anesthesia Conduction Kit 9
Heart-Valve, Non-Allograft Tissue 8
Set, Blood Transfusion 8
Microfilter, Blood Transfusion 7
Refrigerator, Freezer, Blood Storage 7

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 3
93
1993: 1
94
1994: 4
95
1995: 10
96
1996: 76
97
1997: 22
98
1998: 220
99
1999: 106
00
2000: 124
01
2001: 267
02
2002: 223
03
2003: 189
04
2004: 88
05
2005: 29
06
2006: 29
07
2007: 16
08
2008: 29
09
2009: 6
10
2010: 6
11
2011: 11
12
2012: 111
13
2013: 7,828
14
2014: 38,253
15
2015: 4,021
16
2016: 17
17
2017: 4
18
2018: 2
19
2019: 1
20
2020: 5
23
2023: 2

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.