last night Malachi had to be reintubated.
Before I left the hospital last night, I was told that there was some fluid around his lungs, but nothing worrisome. I am hoping they will do another x-ray today to compare and verify that it has not gotten any worse. When they switched him to CPAP, they also stopped his feeds to make sure he would tolerate all that extra air being in his belly. i can only imagine that he's starving... it's been a good 12 hours. Restarting feeds is definitely something that I want my nurse to bring up at rounds this morning.
Also, before I left, I was told that cardiology would be on the unit doing an echo on another baby, so the fellow was going to have them stop by and evaluate Malachi. When they finally got bedside, Malachi decided to once again retract and stop breathing and his oxygen sats dropped immediately to the 40s. He brought himself out of it, but it is not a pretty sight. They decided at that time to intubate.
He was given more sedation to handle the actual intubation process, but I guess as soon as he was intubated, his body finally relaxed having an open airway and he could breath a little easier. They pulled out tons of secretions from his ET tube. They were cloudy white/yellow secretions tinged with a bit of blood from the tube going down his throat. With the combination of the sedation, the removal of all those deep secretions, and an open airway, he was able to fall asleep. poor guy.
This morning, he still has a rash and now he has a really low temp of 35.4 (95.7 F).
definitely a few steps in the wrong direction, that's for sure.
I am so sorry to hear he is not doing well, I will continue to pray and hope things are better soon.
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Crystal and Eva
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ReplyDeleteI am so very sorry to hear that your little one is not doing well....know that my family will keep your family in our thoughts and prayers.
What a roller coaster ride...We will pray for him to gain back what he lost and get that tube out of his little throat!
ReplyDeleteWOW when you think things r pic king up he dives again i wonder if thsi could b the benifit of the track co with that the airways open coz from what you just wrote now i dotn have a trach as you know but i do know it is an airway and people have done it for the secreations i think they should do a brochoscpy and and eve a gi to see if hes got reflux i know with many chargers this can be te case its jstu when you described him being happy with the open airway made me think this is y trach could b the answer lets home im right hugs
ReplyDeleteoh and i did post on ur fb page an idea bout the iregula heart beat i believe sara worte about gannon on the lsit and soem said soemthign bout soem med or she found otu bout soem meds can you ask ehr waht that med was was eather antivan or soemthing like that but ask her to b sure coz itf chi is on that coudl b ur answer there are some meds that course it so ask wat the side effects of all his meds are well ask if they course iregula heart patterns
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