Actor Dennis Quaid’s Twins Recovering
The two-week-old twin children of actor Dennis Quaid are currently recovering in a Los Angeles hospital, after they have been mistakenly given a large overdose of a blood thinning drug.
Although it is one of the United States leading hospitals, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has to officially apologize on Wednesday for what it called the “preventable error” that led to the actor’s children and another unidentified child being given 10,000 units of an anti-coagulant compound called Heparin, instead of the normal 10 units dose that is usually given to babies.
Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace Quaid were born via a surrogate mother on November 8, 2007.
A publicist for Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberley Buffington, said that the couple “appreciate everyone’s thoughts and prayers, and hope they can maintain their privacy during this difficult time.”
The actor married Kimberley Buffington in 2004, after he had broken up with his previous wife, actress Meg Ryan. Quaid is famous for his roles from “The Parent Trap” and “The Rookie”.
According to Doctor Michael Langberg, Cedars-Sinai’s chief medical officer, the actor’s children and the other child affected by this serious medical mistake were recovering without any apparent ill effects after being treated with another drug that had to reverse the effects of Heparin.
Michael Langberg said that the overdose of Heparin that caused the babies to “bleed out” on Sunday, as TMZ.com reported, was the result of a human error by the hospital staff and that investigations are being currently conducted by both the hospital and the Los Angeles health authorities.
“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,” Michael Langberg said.
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