Dennis Quaid's Babies Given Heparin Overdoses at Cedars-Sinai

Several patients (three or seven or thirteen, depending on how high on the sensation-o-meter you like to get your news) at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center were given the wrong dose of Heparin -- including actor Dennis Quaid's 12-day-old twins,Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace.

Babies typically get 10 units of the anticoagulant to flush out IV drips, but in what Cedars-Sinai is calling "a preventable error," the twins were given 10,000 units. The babies started bleed out Sunday night and are now in the NICU, but are thankfully stable.

Statements from Quaid and the hospital after the jump.

The hospital's chief medical officer had this to say:

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. 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.

TMZ reports that the "error" was adult doses of the drug being stored on the wrong shelf, and a nurse grabbing it without double-checking the dosage.

Dennis Quaid and his wife issued the more boilerplate Hollywood statement:

Dennis and Kimberly appreciate everyone's thoughts and prayers and hope they can maintain their privacy at this difficult time.

Thomas and Zoe were born November 8th via a surrogate to Quaid, 53, and his wife of three and a half years, Kimberly Buffington, 35. Quaid also has a 15-year-old son with ex Meg Ryan.

I cannot even imagine. I'm glad things appear to be okay.