Even though this was clearly human error in not double checking, the Quaids feel the manufacturer did not do enough in the way of clear warnings on the bottles nor was enough time spent with safety and education..
Dennis Quaid and his wife sued the makers of heparin Tuesday after their newborn twins were inadvertently given massive doses of the blood thinner at a hospital. The product liability lawsuit, filed in Chicago, seeks more than $50,000 in damages. It claims that Baxter Healthcare Corp., based in Deerfield, Ill., was negligent in packaging different doses of the product in similar vials with blue backgrounds. The lawsuit also says the company should have recalled the large-dosage vials after overdoses killed three children at an Indianapolis hospital last year.
Cedars-Sinai said Tuesday the mistake occurred when two pharmacy technicians failed to verify the vials' concentration before placing them in the pediatrics unit where the lower-concentration heparin is kept. The nurses who administered the drug also failed to check the dosage, the hospital said in a news release.
In February, Baxter Healthcare Corp. sent a letter warning health care workers to carefully read labels on the heparin packages to avoid a mix-up. But the lawsuit by Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, argues that the company didn't do enough.
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