Dennis Quaid Tours Dallas Hospital
Quaid Looks At Heparin Tracking System. Actor Dennis Quaid toured a Dallas hospital on Tuesday to learn about a system to prevent the types of errors his family experienced when his newborn twins were accidentally given a massive overdose of the blood thinner Heparin. According to an Associated Press (AP) report, officials at … [Read more...]
Dennis Quaid Sues Baxter Healthcare over Heparin Overdose
Baxter Healthcare Lawsuit Over Heparin Overdose. A heparin overdose that endangered the lives of Dennis Quaid's infant twins has prompted the actor and his wife to sue Baxter Healthcare for negligence. The Quaid twins were two of three children who were mistakenly given 10,000 units of heparin instead of the normal 10 units given to … [Read more...]
Heparin Overdose at Cedars-Sinai Hospital Endangers Three Babies
Heparin Overdose at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Heparin overdoses are still a threat to hospital patients, despite a recent Food & Drug Administration (FDA) alert warning of the danger. The threat posed by heparin overdose was made apparent this week, after it was reported that three babies at Cedars-Sinai hospital in California … [Read more...]
