[passionfruit]

I remember several newborns dying a year or two ago when a hospital pharmace stocked adult heparin on the pediatric heparin shelf. Nobody caught the error then, looks like the problem or something like it has occurred here.

[Petronski]

Babies typically get 10 units. Our sources say they were each mistakenly given 10,000 units.

What a horrible mistake.

[rineaux]

My prayers are with him, family and the lil twins.

[Red Badger]

OMG!......How does THAT kind of mistake happen?............

[Tax-chick]

Oh, I’m so sorry to hear this. Prayers for the poor little babies!

(I hadn’t realized Dennis Quaid was expecting, bless his heart.)

[doug from upland]

Prayers for the babies and family.

[Theresawithanh]

Terrible news! Prayers for the Quaid family. I can’t imagine how they must feel.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This is all rather strange. The twins were born by way of a ‘gestational carrier’, that is a surrogate mother, a couple of days earlier. Quaid is 53, this will probably hit him hard (and he will hit the hospital harder).

[airborne]

We're told one dose was given on Sunday morning, another on Sunday evening.

Both of them were given the same overdose treatment a half a day apart?

And it wasn't caught on the first child? WTF??

[Vaquero]

I use to work in a pharmaceutical lab where we would take almost solid cryoprecipitate (the clotting factor also known as factor 8) , around 8 KGs of it at a time, harvested from human plasma and dissolve it in a pig heparin solution. it worked fast and would dissolve the stuff right back into a liquid.

My best wishes for these children and the family.

[Diplomat]

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is one of the top medical facilities on this planet. World renown for their heart center, amongst other specialties. If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere.

Not that it matters, but these twins were born via a surrogate mother over a week ago. Prayers for all, this is an awful tragedy.

[MinuteGal]

Maybe a nutcase nurse was trying to harm a celebrity's babies.

It's creepy that some of these types have jobs in hospitals and nursing homes and have access to the locked pharmacutical cabinets and closets.

An ok nurse would never inject doses like this. Something foul is afoot here.

Leni

[BreitbartSentMe]

Sounds like that's what happened here:

We're told a technician stored the Heparin in the wrong place, and when a nurse grabbed the medicine for the babies without looking -- it was the wrong dosage.

A source says the babies are now being given Protamine, which reverses the effects of Heparin.

UPDATE: We're told as many as thirteen patients at Cedars were mistakenly given the overdose of Heparin, but the effects are more critical because of the age and weight of the twins.

[Sue Perkick]

Frightening. Prayers up for those little ones.

[infidel29]

Babies typically get 10 units. Our sources say they were each mistakenly given 10,000 units.

How does someone make such a huge mistake? I wonder how big the lawsuit will be?

Lord watch over these two angels.

[NonValueAdded]

Prayers on the way.

[Eroteme]

Yes, 3 babies died in an incident involving the same exact overdose last year. 6 babies received the wrong dosage.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-09-20-baby-deaths_x.htm

How hard is this? After the first incident, why didn’t the mfgr create new packaging—color coded, different shaped boxes? Slap a picture of the Gerber baby on the infant package fercripes sake....something, anything.