The Quaids Open Up
Filed under: Sad SadDennis Quaid and his wife are talking candidly for the first time about the potentially overdose their infant twins suffered at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
At one point, as a bandage was being changed, blood spurted from the area around Thomas' clipped umbilical cord and hit a wall about 5 feet away, Dennis Quaid, 53, remembered.
Scary stuff.
Click here to read about their harrowing ordeal.
Posted: January 15, 2008 at 1:34 pm
I'm glad the babies are ok now. But stupid hospital mistakes almost cost them their babies. i would sue too…
who gives 1!?!
ohh i was first…haha that has never happened before YAY
doubt I'm first?
That whole thing was just scary! I can't belive that happened. I thought these people were trained and kew what they were doing. I know sometimes mistakes happen but this was just nuts. The amout they were given was crazy and I just don't see how they coulld have mistaken the does by that much!
muh?
FIRST? them babies was bleedin'
FIRST!!
dang I can't spell today. I ment knew* could* and dose*
SCARY, BUT IM GLAD THEY ARE OKAY
That's really disturbing to go through as parents. I wish them the best.
WHO CARES ABOUT SOME STUPID BABIES, SAVE THE GAY WHALES.
Australia LoOv3z YOO!! Its like 3:47 am in brissy and im on ur site LOL!
How horrible.
poor little babies, i hope they´re doing excellent & have no consecuences
Omg, that is so horribly disturbing! They were in the right to sue!
WHY WOULD ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND GO TO THIS HOSPITAL AFTER SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENED??? I WOULD SUE THE SHIT OUT OF THEM. THERE IS NO EXCUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't even IMAGINE! That would be soooo scary. I'm glad that their babies are doing okay.
Hospital mistakes are common and usually able to cover own ass it is unfortunate the confusing labeling ofcourse some people may lose or lost jobs. That is why I changed my nursing career way too much liability and I could not live with myself if I knew it was my fault someone ended up like this.
You can see in both of them with their body language that they are in anguish over what happened to their babies and the negligence by both Baxter Corp. for their poor labeling and Cedars-Sinai for someone leaking to the media. See- there are normal parents who are celebrities!
The staph infection alone could have killed the babies which they no doubt acquired while at the hospital during delivery. Sounds like Cedars Sinai's treatment of the Quaid twins was repeatedly appalling. It's a miracle those babies are alive and healthy!
I am a nurse. I will say in defense of the nurse who administered the wrong dose….The heparin vials for children and adults are identical. Absolutely you have to check and recheck the vial before administering..unfortunately, nurses are human and mistakes occur. There is no excuse for not contacting the parents the minute the mistake was discovered, in preemies this could very well have been fatal and they decompensate extremely quickly, thank God they survived. I hope the twins are on the way to full health, and that the Quaids ordeal will at least be the catalyst for some changes that should have been made long ago.
WAIT TILL I TALK PUBLIC ABOUT HOW FUCT UP NEW HANOVER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER IS
WOOT!
as a trauma nurse let me tell u guys that the makers of heparin will also have to respond to this, the heparin 1mlg dose is the same color and same size as the 1000mlg dose and the packaging is almost identical, so mistake can be made unfortunatly, but what i dont understand is why the heparine 1000mlg was in the niccu ( preny intensive care) in the first place……….but i most say Cedars Sinai's is were you want to go if you had a bad accident their the best for that………. its very sad but it can happen anywhere, even in the best hospital
I can say from personal experience that Cedars is not the super hospital it is portrayed to be. Don't believe the hype. Life and death decisions are made without the consent of the patient or patient's family there all the time. They do not call anyone — husbands, significant others, next of kin — even if they are going to make a major health decision.
One night I called the nurse and they said my relative was doing great, the next night I called and she had a fever of almost 104, an infection, and things were not looking very good. Had I not called the hospital, I would not have gotten that information. It took at least 10 times to beat it into the nurses and doctors' skulls that they needed to call someone if they were going to do something drastic with our family member.
I understand that nurses and doctors are very busy people (my mom is one), but the patient's family deserves to know what's going on, especially if the patient is incapacitated and can't make decisions on their own.
Re: Mary K –
i'm sure you also meant "meant" instead of "ment" lol
#21 and #22 are correct: the Quaids do come across as normal, caring people who are in anguish over the ordeal they've all been put through by a prestigious hospital. Thank God the twins recovered.
The networks could make a show that is the anti-"E.R." It would focus on mishaps and blunders at our hospitals. When I see the aggressive doctoring on tv versus what I've actually experienced, it certainly seems like an alternate universe. Reality check, stat!
I hate Dennis Quaid!!! He's a skunky drunk!
the quaids are idiots and should take parenting classes before the arrival of their own children. If they are so freaked out by having children, maybe they should not have had them.
#2… You'd probably give one if that happened to your kids. Do you have a Soul? Karma will get your Family just for saying something that horrible.
Why did they have a surogate in the first place? Anyone know?
ive been on the drug heparin for my massive blood clots and its a very powerful drug. i had to have many blood tranfusions because my blood was so thin. i can just image what effects it had on those poor babies
That's fucked up! I was on heparin due to a blood clot. Just one of those vials lasted me a week. And gave myself the shots 3 times a day. I'm surprised the babies lived. God Bless the Qaids.