Sunday, September 25, 2011

So Memphis is down 285 grams from last night. All of his numbers are pretty much the same this morning, but his blood pressure has been going down. This usually means that he is getting too dry. They have changed his dialysis machine not to take any extra fluids off. A pretty uneventful day as so far.

His afternoon and evening yesterday was very eventful. The svo2 number which indicates how much oxygen is in his blood after it flows throughout his body, has been going down. It needs to stay around 65 and last night it was only around 55. They had to increase his pump flow. It was around 250, they had to turn it up to around 400. His heart rate had been up around 170. These are all signs of being too dry. Hopefully they will decide to take him off of the dialysis pump within the next few days and start the weaning process. His numbers are better now, and we hope they will stay that way.

1 comment:

  1. Wish I had something wonderful and helpful to say. But I will continue to keep you guys in my thoughts/prayers!

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