Healthcare Professionals

Committed to helping you enhance your practice and the experience of your patients through connected devices and digitalised data sharing.

Healthcare Professionals
  • Primary Care

    Supporting every aspect of your clinical practice, including physical exam, diagnostic cardiology, vitals monitoring and vision screening

  • Hospital Care

    Advancing products and technologies designed to speed patient recovery and streamline clinical workflows

  • Surgical Care

    Delivering innovations that enable reduced operating times, faster patient recovery and improved outcomes

  • Nutritional Care

    Personalizing nutritional care designed to improve patients’ health in the hospital, the ICU and at home

  • Respiratory Care

    Helping your patients with respiratory therapies designed to simplify delivery and improve mobility

  • Our Products & Services

    Our portfolio of acute, nutritional, hospital and surgical care products helps advance healthcare around the world.

Perspectives

For nearly a century, we have worked at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives.

Perspectives

Our Story

Our 90-year heritage gives us distinct perspective on the needs of patients and caregivers. We lead today by putting those insights to work to deliver new, better healthcare solutions and access to care in the communities where we live and work.

Our Story
  • Our Leadership

    Our forward-looking leadership team is a driving force in ensuring we meet the needs of all our stakeholders – every day and everywhere.

  • Our Governance

    We are proud of our strong commitment to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance.

  • Fueling Collaborative Innovation

    Nurturing a culture of innovation is critical to delivering on our mission to save and sustain lives. We partner with the healthcare community to continually find more efficient, smarter ways to help solve the world's most pressing healthcare challenges.

  • Corporate Responsibility

    We strive to create lasting value by empowering our patients, protecting our planet and championing our people and communities.

  • Inclusion & Diversity

    We are committed to attracting, motivating and retaining an inclusive and diverse workforce.

  • Our History

    For nearly a century, we’ve been focused on saving and sustaining lives and elevating patient care.

Patients

Helping you reach a healthy life, full of possibility.

Patients
  • General Healthcare

    Whether you are receiving care in the hospital, at your doctor’s office or at home, we are here to support every step of your journey.

  • Nutritional Care

    When medical conditions prevent you from adequately feeding yourself, we provide life-saving clinical nutrition options to help you regain your nutritional status.

  • Respiratory Care

    We are committed to helping you with innovative products that deliver effective, proven respiratory therapy in the hospital and at home.

Medical Materials Use Position Statement

Medical Materials Use Position Statement

Position Statement: Materials Use

Baxter is committed to providing life-sustaining medical products and services that safely and effectively meet the needs of our healthcare customers and the patients who rely on them. As part of that commitment, we provide our customers with products made from appropriate materials – selected based on the unique characteristics of each product, the required performance attributes and supporting scientific evidence. 

Our choices of materials used in our products are informed by decades of scientific evidence and clinical performance. Baxter continually evaluates a variety of materials and allocates significant funding for research and development. In evaluating the appropriate materials for use in our products, Baxter’s research and development teams ensure that they meet critical performance criteria – including clarity and transparency, strength, flexibility, sterilizability and barrier capability – as well as other considerations, such as usability and environmental impact.

Supported by more than 50 years of safe and effective clinical use and a substantial body of scientific data, Baxter believes that PVC is an appropriate material for many products. PVC has a long history of use in a variety of medical products, including intravenous bags, oxygen tents and catheters. These products have undergone strict regulatory reviews by many government and independent health agencies throughout the world, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The safety of these materials in IV fluid bags has been confirmed by decades of use and approximately eight billion patient days of acute and chronic exposure without report of significant adverse effects. PVC is also recyclable in various markets (including the U.S.). Recycling clean PVC can positively impact the environment by reducing the amount of waste that is landfilled or incinerated. 

While PVC is a widely used material that can consistently meet the rigorous requirements for medical products, it may not be appropriate for all clinical applications. To meet the preferences of some customers and address drug compatibility issues in specific clinical applications, Baxter offers a range of products that use or are contained in non-PVC materials, including intravenous medications, parenteral nutrition solutions, injectable drugs, biopharmaceuticals, IV sets and access devices.

Plasticizers are commonly added to plastics, including PVC, to provide softness, flexibility and kink resistance. One such plasticizer is DEHP [di-(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate], which is widely used in medical applications. Although often referenced together, PVC and DEHP are distinct materials with separate properties. Based on evolving customer preferences and regulatory and government requirements, Baxter is expanding our existing DEHP-free product offerings and will align with relevant sunset dates in various global jurisdictions. This includes a comprehensive transition to an entire DEHP-free IV containers and tubing portfolio in the U.S. by 2035.

Baxter remains committed to delivering a range of essential products, including both PVC-based and PVC-free options, and we will continue our reasoned, science-based approach to the development and adoption of materials used in our products.

Related Information: 
Baxter’s California AB-2300 Position Statement
Transitioning to a DEHP-Free Future