Actor Dennis Quaid's twins almost accidentally overdosed on Heparin. Quaid and his wife are now suing Baxter Healthcare Corp., makers of the blood-thinning drug Heparin, in the hopes that it will force the company to stop packaging...
[more]
Actor Dennis Quaid's twins almost accidentally overdosed on Heparin. Quaid and his wife are now suing Baxter Healthcare Corp., makers of the blood-thinning drug Heparin, in the hopes that it will force the company to stop packaging differing doses in the same vials.
Actor Dennis Quaid is helping launch a national program to help prevent medication errors like the one that hurt his newborn twins in 2007. Quaid on Monday was expected to announce the National Alert Network for Serious Medication Errors at a conference in Las Vegas for pharmacists and other health professionals. The alert system will send e-mail alerts to roughly 35,000 pharmacists, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals when a serious or potentially serious error happens in giving... Read Full Story
After, the medical malpractice that happened with the Quaid Twins. Dennis Quaid has Launched a New Foundation called ” The Quaid Foundation”, which is a foundation that will help minimize human error in patient medical care.
Along with The Quaid Foundation Launch, Dennis has announced his support for the ASHP’s Pharmacy Technician Initiative and the new National Alert Network (NAN). These Two programs will standardize procedures for Pharmacy technicians on how to make less... Read Full Story
Dennis Quaid has launched a program aimed at preventing medication errors - two years after the actor's newborn twins were given a drug overdose that almost killed them. " />" class="middle" /> Read more!
Read Full Story
Posted by
Allan Ford 21 January, 2009
We have added the new trailer and international poster for the Dennis Quaid starring horror thriller, “ The Horsemen “.
Aidan Breslin (Quaid) is a bitter detective emotionally distanced from his two young sons following the untimely death of his devoted wife. While investigating a series of murders of rare violence, he discovers a terrifying link between himself and the suspects in a chain of murders that seem to be based on the Biblical... Read Full Story
Actor Dennis Quaid gave a passionate appeal for hospitals to implement electronic medical records and advanced technologies in order to prevent medical errors at the 2009 Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society conference in Chicago yesterday. Quaid relayed how in 2007, his 10-day-old twins nearly died after they were mistakenly given 1,000 times more of the blood thinner drug heparin than intended at a Los Angeles hospital. The near-lethal dose caused massive hemorrhaging. The... Read Full Story
Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly have reached a settlement of $750,000 against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for the accidental overdose of their newborn twins in 2007. The agreement is pending the approval of a Los Angeles judge. "The settlement is the result of extensive negotiations between the parties and their respective legal representatives, and is intended to avoid the time, expense and uncertainty of litigation," say papers filed in L.A. Superior Court on Monday. An attorney for... Read Full Story
An L.A. judge signed off today on a $750,000 settlement between Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly Quaid and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center over a potentially fatal overdose of blood thinners given to their newborn twins . Entertainment Tonight is reporting that in the deal, struck in December and made official on Thursday, the hospital did not admit any wrongdoing for the 2007 incident, in which Zoe Grace and Thomas Boone Quaid were accidentally administered 1,ooo times the recommended... Read Full Story
You are browsing images from the article: Quaid Hospital Case Closed "> You are browsing images from the article: Quaid Hospital Case Closed " target="_blank"> Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid can finally put a 2007 Los Angeles hospital blunder behind him - a judge has officially closed the case that almost cost his twin babies their lives. The star and his wife Kimberley were awarded $750,000 in damages in December (08), after staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center mistakenly gave then-newborns... Read Full Story
Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore have been cast to portray the former President and First Lady in an upcoming TV movie! Quaid will star as Persident Bill Clinton, Moore will portray Hillary Clinton and Michael Sheen will play British Prime Minister Tony Blair in The Special Relationship, says Variety. The HBO film, which hasnt yet been greenlit, will chronicle the sometimes-tumultuous political relationship between the former president and prime minister when they were in power. Next up for... Read Full Story
For the first time since their twins were given an overdose of blood thinner, Dennis Quaid and his wife have returned to the Los Angeles hospital that administered the drug for an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Harpo Productions said in a release Thursday that Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, wanted to visit Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to see what steps have been taken to ensure a similar mistake won't happen again. The newborn twins were administered too much Heparin in November 2007... Read Full Story
