CNN CNN Special Report August 16, 2015 03:09:00
Of plastic surgery. at number 20, dosage disasters. movie star dennis quaid's twins, thomas and zoe, develop an infection a few days after they're born. the quaids take the babies to the hospital for a course of antibiotics. a blood thinner called heparin is used to prepare their ivs. >> when you have an iv, there's a very, very, very dilute dose that they'll put a minuscule amount in the iv so that the iv doesn't clot up. >> when the babies get the iv, their blood unexpectedly turns thin as water. >> at one point as the doctors tried to clamp a bleeding wound in the remnant of t-boon's umbili...