Babies given wrong dose of Heparin @ Cedar Sinai

Hi everybody:
Is anyone following the case Dennis Quaid's newborns? It sounds like his wrath is aimed at drug companies for making the labels of different concentrations of heparin looking so similar. I know that a pharm tech put the wrong vial in a drawer in the pedi unit. Anybody know details? I would like to know what the staffing situation was when his twins were given the wrong heparin.
Thanks,
Diahni

victims of overstaffing? I dream of overstaffing! lol

whoopsies - I meant understaffing - duh. Freudian slip!
Diahni

This will be featured tonight on "60 Minutes." The details have been posted in lengthy threads on this forum. I'm not aware of the moderators editing or deleting any of those posts.

As I recall, staffing was not the issue when the Quaid children were overdosed. The hospital still had heparin on its shelves that bore old labels. A nurse did not check the label and overdosed the children.

The Quaids are going after the drug company because they have no cause of action against the hospital or the nurse. That's because the children were given the antidote and recovered. Had they been damaged, the family would have a claim. I don't doubt that their lawyer gave another reason when speaking to a reporter about not going after the nurse, though. To say "we don't have a claim" diminishes the public view of their case.

They don't want to target the nurses because that doesn't always go over well in court with a jury. Plus, if he wants to continue to make money as an actor, if a nurse or two goes down because of him, he stands to lose money at the box office.