Personal Injury Law

Dennis Quaid Sues Baxter for Heparin Overdose

By Linda Snyder

Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly Buffington filed a lawsuit in December 2007 against Baxter Healthcare Corporation, claiming the drug maker was negligent when packaging different doses of the same drug in similar packaging. Both heparin and the lower dose version, hep-lock are packaged in similar vials with blue backgrounds and very small print on both labels.

Quaid's newborn twins, who were hospitalized for staph infections, were both administered multiple near fatal dose of the blood thinner Heparin at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles last November. Zoe Grace and Thomas Boone were given 10,000 units of Heparin, rather than the 10 units they were prescribed. Babies typically get Heparin in their IV catheters to prevent clotting because their IV lines are so tiny. It's necessary for the babies to survive.

Full post as published by Cheyenne Personal Injury Lawyer on March 18, 2008 (boomark / email).