Medication Delivery

Baxter's Medication Delivery Business provides a large range of the support systems used to treat patients in today's hospitals. The main products include:

• IV fluids which are crucial in hospitals, Baxter provides approximately 20 million units in the UK each year
• A range of administration sets for blood and solutions, with modifying systems to enable administration of many of the new drugs available today
• Infusion pumps, which control the amounts of IV solution being given to patients. Baxter has recently developed the high-tech pumps which are increasingly used in special care baby units and intensive care, where extreme control of drug administration is required
• Nutrition products for when patients have to be fed intravenously
• Clinical Irrigation products to help with treatment in areas such as Urology, Gynaecology and Orthopaedics
• Oncology delivery products to provide chemotherapy treatment for cancer
• Technologies providing ambulatory devices, for instance in treating cystic fibrosis where a portable system can gradually deliver the necessary drugs direct into the bloodstream
• Anaesthesia devices and pharmaceutical agents used in the Theatre environment

These units provide a state of the art cleanroom environment with a dedicated specialist team for 'sterile' preparation of parenteral (injectable) products. These specialist Units are located at:

• Manchester (cancer chemotherapy)
• Mount Vernon Hospital, Watford (cancer chemotherapy)
• Churchill Hospital, Oxford (mixed)
• Baxter Healthcare site, Thetford (mixed)
  

They manage the risk of aseptic compounding, not just the host hospital, but for a large number of hospitals across the UK - for example, over 14% of all cancer chemotherapy doses in the UK are prepared in Baxter aseptic compounding units.