Baxter’s North Cove manufacturing plant supplied roughly 60 percent of IV fluids used by U.S. hospitals, including half of all peritoneal dialysis (PD) fluids for the country. The Food and Drug ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The damage from Hurricane Helene has caused a dialysis fluid shortage. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now urging facilities to ration ...

The iso-osmotic peritoneal dialysis solution icodextrin (Extraneal ®, Baxter International, Inc., Deerfield, IL) contains glucose polysaccharides, which are hydrolyzed by α-amylase to maltose ...