Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife filed a lawsuit in Chicago today against Baxter Healthcare Corp. for making a drug they say seriously injured the Quaids’ baby twins last month.
Zoe Grace Quaid and Thomas Boone Quaid “were very critical for a while†after being giving the wrong concentration of the drug heparin, said the Quaids’ attorney, Susan E. Loggans.
Baxter spokeswoman Deborah Spak declined comment on the lawsuit, saying she had not seen it.
The twins appear to have recovered and “everything looks good,†but the Quaids want to prevent this scare happening to any other children, Loggans said.
The 10-units-per-milliliter vial of heparin looks almost exactly the same as the 10,000-units-per-milliliter vial of the drug, according to the lawsuit.
The Quaids’ children were mistakenly given the stronger dose. Three children died in Indiana from a similar mix-up with the drug, Loggans said.
Quaid has starred in such movies as The Big Easy; The Rookie; Frequency; Any Given Sunday; and Something to Talk About.
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