Tragic Overdose to Quaid’s Newborn Twins

I’ve always really liked Dennis Quaid. He comes off as good hearted person in my eyes (perhaps thats just because of the types of movies he makes.) So, when I read about this peice of news, I was really heartbroken for him and his wife.

Apparently his newborn twins named Zoe Grace and Thomas Boone, who were born on November 8 by a surrogate mother, were accidentally given an extremely large dose of Heparin. I didn’t know this, but apparently babies are given this drug to prevent blood clots and usually newborns are only given a dose of 10 units. Quaids newborns, and roughly thirteen other patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, were given a whopping 10,000 units. One dose of Heparin was given on Sunday morning, and then a second dose was given again Sunday evening. Thus, causing the newborns to “bleed out”. Upon noticing this, they were immediately sent to the Cedars neo-natal intensive care unit and are now, thankfully, in stable conditions.

It’s reported that the dangerous error was made when a technician kept the Heparin in the wrong place and then a nurse gave the babies the medicine without double checking the dosage. It must have been caught ‘just in time’ because the babies were being given Protamine, which reverses the blood thinning effects of Heparin, and should relatively overcome this without further effects.

This had to be so scary for Dennis and his wife. Thankfully the babies are going to be okay, but I could only imagine their frustration with the staff who were taking care of their babies. Just goes to show that being in the medical field really leaves no room for mistakes.

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