Purple dinosaur? No.

The Quaids should also be suing the hospital. The nurse who gave the medication is 100% responsible for not looking at the number on the bottle to be sure he/she gave the right amount of medication. What’s more alarming is the fact that hospitals are not even supposed to be using Heparin to flush IV lines, especially on infant and pediatric units, but should be using normal saline instead. The person responsible for the overdose was the nurse, and according to initial reports the nurse also overdosed thirteen other infants at the same time.

Even someone who is not a nurse can clearly see the bottles have different colored labels, tops, writing on the label, and there’s a big difference between 10,000 and 10. The nurse was lazy, and he/she needs to pay for that mistake. Baxter should also consider making the 10,000 unit Heparin vial red. The hospital should implement a normal saline only IV flush policy like most other hospitals did more than 10 years ago.