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Dennis Quaid Couple Sues Drug Company After Twins' Overdose
December 05, 2007 at 6:15 PM
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The lawsuit filed against Baxter Healthcare Corporation claims that the firm failed to properly label vials of its product and that the 10-units-per-milliliter vial and the 10,000-units-per-milliliter are virtually identical.
The couple's newborns, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, were hospitalised on Nov. 20 at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after accidentally being given 1,000 times the recommended dose of Heparin on Nov. 18.
The suit also alleges that the twins "suffered and will continue to suffer injuries" from the accident.
Quaids' lawyer, Susan E. Loggans said that firm knew about the medication errors.
“On a negligence scale of one to 10, Baxter Corporation gets a 10," People quoted Loggans as saying.
"They knew medication errors due to product labelling 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," she added.
Loggans also said that the babies were very critical. While the infants have recovered and everything looks good the Quaids want to help prevent future accidents.
However, Baxter’s spokeswoman Erin Gardiner said that the issue here is the improper use of the product.
"This is not a product issue, the issue here is improper use of a product,” said Gardiner.
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