Dennis Quaid to sue over children's accidental overdose · 2007-12-07 13:50
Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly Buffington are to sue the makers of a blood thinner which was given to their newborn twins in an accidental overdose last month.
Quaid's twins were mistakenly given a larger dose of Heparin in a Los Angeles hospital when they were two-weeks-old, BBC informs.
Quaid alleges Baxter Healthcare failed to put clear labels on vials of Heparin which caused the mix-up.
Deborah Spak, from the Illinois-based company, said: "The issue here is about improper use of a product."
The children, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, were mistakenly given 10,000 units of Heparin instead of the normal 10 units, while they were patients at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Cedars-Sinai apologised at the time for what it called a preventable human error.
Quaid's lawyer Susan Loggans said Quaid and his wife had not yet decided whether to sue the hospital.
"The point of this case is to save other children from this fate. They're not looking for money," she said.
Ms Loggans added that the babies were now back home and "doing fantastic."
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