BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION

Manufacturer adverse-event records for BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 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 · 1992–2026 · heavy-book · elevated Death-code · balanced

Volume signature

BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION sits in the heavy MAUDE book

BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION accounts for 175,331 FDA MAUDE reports (#17 of 443, heavy-book tercile). Death-coded event_type share is 1.33% (elevated); Injury share 18.8% (balanced).

What the volume reading shows for BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION

The standout signal for BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION is filing volume: 175,331 adverse-event reports in FDA MAUDE (#17 of 443, heavy-book). Death-coded event_type share sits at 1.33% (elevated).

As a heavy-book manufacturer, portfolio size and reporting obligations inflate absolute counts - pair BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 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 139,666 (79.7% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 33,475 reports across 35 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

175,331
Total Reports
2,331
Event-type Death
32,946
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 139,666 (79.7%)
Injury 32,946 (18.8%)
Death 2,331 (1.3%)
Other 204 (0.1%)
182 (0.1%)
No answer provided 2 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

138,919 (73.7%)
Hospitalization 15,169 (8.1%)
Required Intervention 11,329 (6.0%)
R 11,106 (5.9%)
Other 6,923 (3.7%)
Death 2,347 (1.2%)
H 1,760 (0.9%)
O 399 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 212 (0.1%)
D 95 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 42 (0.0%)
L 37 (0.0%)
S 19 (0.0%)
Disability 16 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 4 (0.0%)
C 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 27
93
1993: 17
94
1994: 18
95
1995: 4
96
1996: 35
97
1997: 93
98
1998: 120
99
1999: 114
00
2000: 319
01
2001: 526
02
2002: 602
03
2003: 169
04
2004: 980
05
2005: 1,611
06
2006: 1,215
07
2007: 276
08
2008: 614
09
2009: 44
10
2010: 20
11
2011: 543
12
2012: 365
13
2013: 12,801
14
2014: 33,475
15
2015: 16,947
16
2016: 11,866
17
2017: 3,843
18
2018: 2,870
19
2019: 4,123
20
2020: 14,089
21
2021: 14,140
22
2022: 14,617
23
2023: 13,148
24
2024: 10,268
25
2025: 13,550
26
2026: 1,882