MAKERS OF PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG HEPARIN SUED BY DENNIS QUAID AND WIFE FOR PRODUCT LIABILITY AFTER BLOOD THINNER MISTAKE AT CEDARS SINAI HOSPITAL IN LOS ANGELES
A product liability lawsuit was filed by Dennis Quaid and his wife after an incident where their newborn twins were accidentally given large doses of the anti-coagulant pharmaceutical drug Heparin while they were at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. The product liability lawsuit was filed against Baxter Healthcare Corp. and alleges that they were negligent in the way they packaged different doses of Heparin with similar backgrounds. Three children were killed at a hospital in Indianapolis last year, and the suit alleges that Baxter should have recalled the vials with large doses after these incidents. The company recently changed its packaging by adding a red label that reads “Caution” and must be removed before the vials can be opened. The Quaids are not suing Cedars Sinai hospital for medical malpractice which admitted that this was a preventable error.
The Quaids’ twins, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, along with a third patient were mistakenly given massive doses of heparin during their stay at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, California on November 18th. The vials contained 10,000 units of heparin per milliliter instead of 10 units per milliliter which was 1,000 times stronger than the normal dosage for a small baby. Heparin was used to flush catheters to prevent clotting. The Quaids claim that the lawsuit is not about money and that they just want to save other children from suffering the same incident as their twins. Despite the fact that the twins nearly died from their overdose, they are reportedly doing well, but the long term affects of the incident are unknown.
