Monday 08/31/09
Luke, the night nurse, said Michael is still doing pretty good. They decreased his vent settings. fiO2 is now 40% and they are still weaning his sedation medicines. He said they took down his grafts (burn lingo for unwrapped the sites where the grafts are) and said they are looking good. Forgot to mention that Bette said he has "isotoner-like " gloves now. Michael got 2 units of blood last night. There is some sort of physiological process with burn patients so that they don't make enough erythropoeitin (sp) so they need blood from time to time. If any of you can explain it to me please feel free... I will try to research it, too.
okay that's the morning report. Luke is a man of few words.
More later,
and so we go
JaCee