Dennis Quaid Says The Babies' Blood Was Everywhere
MAR 14, 2008 AT 12:22 PM
Oh my gosh, I got a knot in my stomach just reading this. Dennis Quaid is now speaking out about the horrifying experience that his family went through after his twins were given an overdose of Heparin, a blood thinner.
On the gravity of the problem:
"[Mix-ups] happen in every hospital in every state in this country and ... I've come to find out, there's 100,000 people a year killed ... in hospitals by a medical mistakes. It's bigger than AIDS. It's bigger than breast cancer. It's bigger than automobile accidents and yet, no one seems to be really aware of the problem."
On the scene at the hospital while his children were fighting for their lives:
"Our kids are bleeding from everyplace that they've punctured," says Quaid. "They were working on Boone, whose belly button would not stop bleeding - “ blood squirted across the room. It was blood everywhere. It was a life-and-death situation."
On recalls:
"After these three kids died in Indiana, they did not issue a recall," says Quaid, noting that toasters and trucks are routinely recalled. "They recall dog food that came from China last year. But they don't recall medicine that kills people if you give it in the wrong dosage. We think it's wrong. "
On establishing a foundation that will help take preventative measures within the health care system:
"We all have this inherent thing that we trust doctors and nurses, that they know what they're doing. This mistake occurred right under our noses," he says. "The nurse didn't bother to look at the dosage on the bottle. It was avoidable, completely avoidable."
Can you imagine going through something like that??? I'm glad Dennis is going to try and help make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen to anyone else.
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God! what an efffing nightmare ( shakes head ) !!!!!!!!!!!!!! God Bless those poor babies-
I beleive the reason they wanted it recalled was because the multipe dose package looks exactly the same as the single dose package. Thus the reason nurses accidentaly gave multipe doses when they thought they were giving single doses. But obviously, they should be reading the packaging prior to administering anything.
if he is referring to the dog food recall, he should be ashamed of himself. animals dies because they ate that food. a life is a life, whether human or animal.
died**
I cant imagine going through that. Hopefully, the babies will be okay but there are plenty of people out there, young and old, who have been permanently disabled by a mistake that a hospital made. Its time this issue made the front lines.
Yes, they should change the packaging, increase the font size for the dosage on the bottle and perhaps a warning colour (Red) for very high, potentially dangerous dosages. Doctors and nurses are human so you have to put in safety mechanisms to prevent mistakes.
Title should read ...blood WAS everywhere. Sorry - stuff like that bothers me. lol
I just read " A race Against Time" A book on AIDS in the last ten years, and let me just tell you MORE than 100 000 people dies each year of AIDS. DO not compare medical accidents to AIDS. It is like apple and oranges. I just think that comment was really off.
I was thinking the same thing Melissa.
*clapping* Well, put Sara.
Personally, I admire the healthcare community. My family and I had very positive experiences. Yes, admittedly, we experienced some mistakes, but overall, our experiences were good.
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