Dennis Quaid recalls twins' drug ordeal

Dennis Quaid spoke about the drug ordeal his infant twins went through on a US TV interview.

The actor recounted the near tragedy that unfolded in November 2007, when his children were given massive overdoses of a blood thinner at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on US news show 60 Minutes.

The mistake by the medical staff at the hospital nearly cost Quaids twins, Zoe Grace and Thomas Boone their young lives.

Quaid said: "It was the scariest, most frightening day that Kimberly (Quaid's wife) and I have ever been through, to come to face to face with your little kids who - so young in that kinda situation."

Quaid, 53, spoke about his misplaced trust in the medical staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

He said: "We all have this inherent thing that we trust doctors and nurses, that they know what they're doing. But this mistake occurred right under our noses, that the nurse didn't bother to look at the dosage on the on the bottle."

Quaid went into detail of how, in particular Boone suffered, when he returned to the hospital after being called about the error.

He said: "They were working on Boone, whose belly button would not stop bleeding. And while they were trying to clamp it, blood squirted across the room, about six feet and landed on the wall. There was blood everywhere."

When asked how serious the incident was, Quaid revealed: "It was a life and death situation."