The Quaids Are Suing

Dennis Quaid and his wife are suing the makers of the blood thinner drug Heparin after their newborn twins were overdosed due to negligent packaging.

They are seeking more than $50,000 in damages in a product liability suit, claiming that Baxter Healthcare Corp., was negligent in packaging different doses of the product in similar vials with blue backgrounds.

This is not the first time the packaging has been confused, leading to overdosing. Last year three children died at an Indianapolis hospital as a result of the misleading packing, which should have been recalled.

The Quaid’s twins, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, and a third patient were at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Nov. 18 when they were mistakenly given vials of heparin that were 1,000 times stronger than the usual dosage.

The twins are now home and “appear to be doing well,” said Susan E. Loggans, the Chicago attorney who filed the lawsuit. “The Quaids are a religious family, and they really believe the prayers of the public saved their kids.”

“Apparently, they’re going to be fine now,” she said but declined to otherwise comment on the children’s medical conditions.

“The point of this case is to save other children from this fate. They’re not looking for money,” Loggans said of the lawsuit.

We wish the babies and their parents well. Hopefully they will be fine.

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Dennis Quaids Newborn’s Given Overdose

Dennis Quaid’s surrogate, fraternal newborn twins are fighting for their lives after being inadvertently overdosed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Sources tell us the twins — Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace — were accidentally given a massive dose of Heparin, an anti-coagulant. Babies typically get 10 units. Our sources say they were each mistakenly given 10,000 units. The drug is used to flush out IV lines and prevent blood clots. We’re told one dose was given on Sunday morning, another on Sunday evening.

We’re told late Sunday night, both babies started to “bleed out.” Both babies are now at Cedars in the neo-natal intensive care unit where we’re told they are stable, reports TMZ.

The twins were born to Quaid and wife Kimberly Buffington November 8 via surrogate.

A rep for Quaid did not immediately return our call for comment and there was no immediate comment from Cedars.

We’re told a technician stored the Heparin in the wrong place, and when a nurse grabbed the medicine for the babies without looking — it was the wrong dosage.

A source says the babies are now being given Protamine, which reverses the effects of Heparin.

UPDATE: We’re told as many as thirteen patients at Cedars were mistakenly given the overdose of Heparin, but the effects are more critical because of the age and weight of the twins.

Sad, sad, sad… I hope they recover.

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