Dennis Quaid Recalls Heparin Nightmare

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See More... DENNIS Quaid recalls on “60 Minutes” on Sunday the terrifying night his newborn twins nearly died from being given the wrong drug. He says, “[Mishaps] happen in every hospital in every state . . . There’s 100,000 people a year killed . . . in hospitals by medical mistakes. It’s bigger than AIDS. It’s bigger than breast cancer. It’s bigger than automobile accidents.” Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, tiny twins of Quaid and wife Kimberly, were mistakenly given Heparin, an adult-strength blood thinner, instead of Hep-tock, a children’s version that’s 1,000 times weaker. The overdose, last November at Cedar Sinai Medical Center in LA, had the kids “bleeding from every place that they’ve punctured,” Quaid recalls. “They were working on Boone, whose bellybutton would not stop bleeding . . . It was blood everywhere.” The Quaids have sued manufacturer Baxter International for allegedly failing to make vials of Hep-lock and Heparin look distinctive enough.

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Awww, that is awful, so glad they are now fine, poor little things

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