Friday, November 4, 2011

ICU Day #2

We're still here, and the second x-ray has been completed. They determined that there isn't much change to the lung, so they want to do a different treatment.
They are placing her on a bypap machine, which is used to push air into her lungs to push whatever is plugging it up out.
They are hoping to see improvements by tomorrow and start getting her back onto highflow, but only time will tell.
The nice thing is that she is slightly sedated so she is taking to the mask well. We will continue to give her sedatives (they will only make her sleepy because we want her to use her lungs to the full capacity).
Sad part is, she has had her food stopped because gas can be pushed into the belly causing discomfort, so I will just be venting her instead :(
She is doing well otherwise, so we are hopeful that she will be off this silly machine tomorrow.



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