Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.

Dusty Martin blamed himself after almost losing his 8-year-old son Michael to a bacterial infection. The boy is a hemophiliac who needs regular injections of medicine to reduce the risk of bleeding to death from a slight cut. Martin uses pre-filled syringes of saline and heparin to flush out the port in his son’s chest before administering his medication. But early last year, shortly after receiving his drugs, Michael began shaking. His temperature shot up to 106 and Martin rushed him to the hospital where he underwent emergency surgery.

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The FDA received reports of about debris in syringes filled with heparin and saline distributed by AM2PAT as early as 2005, yet the agency didn’t follow up on those complaints until 2007, after five deaths and hundreds of illnesses were linked to the contaminated syringes, according to the Associated Press.

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Pharmaceutical giant Baxter International faces yet another lawsuit, this time for playing a role in the distribution of a contaminated saline syringe that was used on a woman who afterward suffered serious medical problems that may have led to her death a year later, according to the Hays Daily News.

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