
I really hate stories like this since I know the effects of medical errors in my dayjob…
What? You think I get PAID to do this? Nah, I do it for the pussy. BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Anyway, Dennis Quaid and his wife celebrate the birth of their twins back on the 8th (um, they used a “gestational carrier” - someone to carry the kids that were conceived with Quaids’ genetic material. Y’know, a “donkey”.). Unfortunately, they were placed in NeoNatal Intensive Care at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. because someone fucked up their heparin:
From People.com:
Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, who were born on Nov. 8, were accidentally given a major dose of the anti-coagulant heparin.
The babies are in stable condition in the neo-natal intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, TMZ reports.
Later, TMZ found out the reason why:
Sources tell us the twins — Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace — were accidentally given a massive dose of Heparin, an anti-coagulant. Babies typically get 10 units. Our sources say they were each mistakenly given 10,000 units. The drug is used to flush out IV lines and prevent blood clots. We’re told one dose was given on Sunday morning, another on Sunday evening.
We’re told late Sunday night, both babies started to “bleed out.” Both babies are now at Cedars in the neo-natal intensive care unit where we’re told they are stable.
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.
(There’s also a note that several patients received this high dose Heparin)
Let me tell you about Heparin folks, and I’ll say this in the kindest, most gentlest way I can think of….
YOU DON’T FUCK AROUND WITH HEPARIN!!! IT’S A GODDAMN BLOOD THINNER!!!! TOO MUCH CAN CAUSE SOMEONE TO BLEED TO DEATH LIKE A DAMN HEMOPHILIAC!!! WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING!? THE SECOND YOU GET SO BORED WITH YOUR JOB YOU IGNORE HEPARIN STRENGTH — GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE! YOU GONNA KILL SOMEBODY!
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Thank you.