What is the true scope of the Baxter’s legacy when it comes to Heparin? Is it the relatively small number of deaths reported by the FDA last summer, or is it a number of deaths that could reach into the thousands?
By now it must be known just how many doses of contaminated Heparin Baxter produced and distributed. Both Baxter and the FDA have to know at least that much, right? The FDA first started by recalling nine lots, then additional lots and then pulled all of the Chinese heparin. But just how broad of a problem does “nine lots” represent? Would anyone in the public or even the news media know?
I am still waiting for proof that that number didn’t reach into the millions of contaminated doses. Heparin is administered to millions of people each year. If all of the Heparin for even the shortened time period from the Fall 2007 thru the Spring of 2008 was contaminated, doesn’t that mean millions were poisoned? Why is the FDA not telling us more. I can understand when it is a Republican FDA, but why are the Democrats not doing better?
Now we learn from the FDA that getting the dosing right on Heparin requires intense monitoring. See our last blog. So doesn’t that mean that what the FDA and Baxter hasn’t told us includes that failure to control potency could have killed many more?
When dealing with an intravenous drug that is given to our sickest patients (like kidney dialysis patients) there must be a duty not just to make the drug perfect, but also to tell everyone who got the less than perfect drug, of what happened to them.
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Liane says:
Here is an article regarding the decreased potency of Heparin:
http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/13187
5th October 2009 at 7:46 am