More than a year after a former Dallas anesthesiologist was convicted of tampering with IV bags, survivors and their families say they are still waiting for the medical industry to take action.

Raynaldo Ortiz, MD, a Dallas-based anesthesiologist, was sentenced to 190 years in prison after being convicted of injecting nerve-blocking agents and other drugs into IV bags at Baylor Scott & White ...

Baxter International, a health care and medical tech company in North Carolina ... IV fluid for the country and produces 1.5 million IV bags per day. Officials at Mass. General Brigham said ...

In an update posted Nov. 7, Baxter said its North Cove facility had resumed ... but without a dedicated IV fluid bag, known as a push medication. “You don’t even need a bag at all. You just give the ...

Several medical manufacturing plants in the southeastern ... In 2017, Hurricane Maria knocked out three Baxter IV-bag producing plants in Puerto Rico, leading to hospital shortages, temporary ...

ICU Medical has recalled two lots of potassium chloride intravenous bags, citing a labeling problem ... after damage from Hurricane Helene forced Baxter International to temporarily close a ...

The current shortage occurred when flooding coursed through western North Carolina and damaged a Baxter ... IV fluids, loaded trucks at the company’s plant in Daytona Beach with the medical bags ...

Baxter says its North Cove ... Also, hospitals are conserving by, for instance, giving some medications intravenously but without an IV fluid bag, known as a push medication.

"You can inject any kind of medication into that port without any sign of entry. That's exactly what happened here." Baxter is the largest producer of IV bags in the U.S., according to the lawsuit.

In an update posted Nov. 7, Baxter said its facility in Marion ... intravenously but without a dedicated IV fluid bag, known as a push medication. "You don't even need a bag at all.