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Article: Warning: labels; Dennis Quaid, wife say their twins were seriously injured after health care provider gave babies wrong concentration of drug because vials looked the same
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 5, 2007
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Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, filed a lawsuit in
Chicago on Tuesday against Deerfield-based Baxter Healthcare Corp.
for its labeling of a blood-thinner the Quaids say seriously injured
their baby twins last month.
Zoe Grace Quaid and Thomas Boone Quaid "were very critical for a
while" after being given the wrong concentration of the drug
Heparin, said the Quaids' attorney, Susan E. Loggans.
The 10-units-per-milliliter vial of Hep-lock looks very similar
to the 10,000-units-per-milliliter vial of Heparin. They are about
the same size and have blue labels, one a darker shade of blue, one
a lighter shade of blue.
Loggans said the similarity of the labels made them "deadly."
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