Thursday 08/27/09

What did we miss yesterday? There was a change in Michael's urine output and the labs indicating his kidney function. (BUN and Creatinine were up, for those of you who have to "know", like me!) Bette stayed with him for the day and said they gave him some fluids. Amelia, the night nurse, gave him some albumin. Dr. Saffle is aware and will probably do something later this morning about the urine/kidney thing.

Amelia woke Michael up earlier and said that he was able to nod "yes and no" this morning. So he's in there somewhere! He has been weaned off of versed again and is just getting propofol for sedation now.

His vent settings were changed a little. Evidently, he was weaned to 40% FiO2 (the mixture of oxygen that is going in: room air is 21% and it goes up to 100% with additional oxygen) That setting did not go so well and now they are back up to 60%. He also got the vent working for him last night so he could rest better. By the way, for those "techno-nerds" like me, he has a Shiley 7.0 trach in place.

More later,

and so we go

JaCee