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Dennis Quaid’s Twins in Preventable Danger

After hearing what has happened to the Quaid Twins, it made me realize that you cannot trust anyone that works in a hospital.  You should always have someone watching every move that a nurse or doctor makes, while you are in the hospital.  I know that if I go into the hospital anytime soon, I will definitely have some friend or family member there at all times with me.  For all you know a doctor may give you something and kill you.  I am sorry, but the $250,000 for mal-practice law suits, is not worth my life.  I am not going to get the money and my family believe it or not would rather have me over money any day of the week.  CE’s thoughts and prayers go out to the entire Quaid family.  Dennis Quaid is a fine actor and hearing things like this make me appreciate life a lot more.  If you have not heard about this story yet, let me give you a little insight.  Dennis and Kimberly Quaid recently had a surrogate mother have their baby twins on November 8, 2007.

During the twins time in the hospital some idiot supposedly made the mistake of giving each of the new born babies 10,000 units of heparin, which is an anti-coagulant.  Babies normally get 10 units of heparin compared to the 10,000 units that an adult may receive.  So, Cedar’s-Sinai Medical Center has made a huge error and given each baby more heparin than their bodies could handle and the babies started to bleed out of several areas of the body.  The twins are in the neo-natal intensive care unit and are at this time in stable condition.  Thank God!  A statement has been released from the hospital’s chief medical officer, Dr. Michael Langberg, I want to extend my deepest apologies to the families who were affected by this situation, and we will continue to work with them on any concerns or questions they may have. 

In addition, “This was a preventable error, involving a failure to follow our standard policies and procedures, and there is no excuse for that to occur at Cedars-Sinai. Although it appears at this point that there was no harm to any patient, we take this situation very seriously.”  Honestly, how can you say there has been no harm done to any patient, no doctor will know the effects that the drug would have right away, it could take up to six weeks to learn the true effects.  The chief medical officer also added that three unidentified patients had their IVs flushed with an overly high concentration of heparin, used to keep IV catheters from clotting.  So, not only did they give this drug to the twins another person or baby for all we know was given the wrong dosage by supposed error.  The other person has been unidentified by the way.  Then it was proclaimed that other patients at the Center had also been tested immediately after they identified the error made as a precaution.  

Michael Langberg said, “As a result of a preventable error, the patients’ IV catheters were flushed with heparin from vials containing a concentration of 10,000 units per milliliter instead of from vials containing a concentration of 10 units per milliliter.”
 

Other patients were tested as a precaution, Langberg said.  Currently, the patients including the Quaid twins, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace have received a drug by IV to reverse the effects of heparin and bring the body levels back to normal. 
 

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