Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly have sued the manufacturer of the drug Heparin over the recent medication mix-up involving their newborn twins. The lawsuit is seeking more than $50,000 in damages from the Baxter Healthcare Corporation who make the anti-coagulant Heparin for failing to properly label vials of its product and that the 10-units-per-milliliter vial and the 10,000-units-per-milliliter which are virtually identical.
The Quaid's assert children, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, were born November 8 and were subsequently hospitalized on November 20 at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after accidentally being given 1,000 times the recommended dose of Heparin on November 18.
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