Dennis Quaid seeks justice
Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly Buffington has filed a lawsuit against Baxter Healthcare Corp., the makers of the anti-coagulant drug Heparin after their newborn twins were given a 10,000 unit dose instead of 10 units. The couple is seeking $50,000 in damages claiming the vials for the 10,000 units and the bottles for the 10 units looks virtually alike.
The Quaids assert that the company knew of previous dosage mix-ups, yet failed to recall shipments of the drug or properly warn hospitals of the dangers.
“On a negligence scale of one to 10, Baxter Corporation gets a 10,” the Quaids’ lawyer, Susan E. Loggans, tells PEOPLE. “They knew medication errors due to product labeling resulted in death but failed to recall the drug. Each year there’s 1.5 million medication errors in America – it is a national epidemic.”
In a related news 1,400 nurses at L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the hospital where the overdose happened, are being forced to get extra training, according to Page Six. It’s about time the Quaid seek some kind of justice for the potentially lethal dose of Heparin given to their newborn twins.
