Dr. Anderson stopped by this morning, and after looking at his numbers during the trial off, he has decided that he is stable enough to be taken off of ECMO. This will include takingnhim off of dialysis. When he removes the canulas, he will attempt to put a venous central line in the vein at that point. This may or may not work to give them access for dialysis. He will not be on dialysis for a couple of days in which we hope that he will urinate. If he does not, he will have to be put back on dialysis. In which, finding access is an issue. They can use a vein in his chest or groin, both of which are not quite as big as they would like them. Hopefully the venous central line will stick in there and they can use that if they do need to put him back on dialysis.
They are planning on pulling the canulas between eleven and two. It will be a couple of hour procedure.
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