Feb 22, 2010 11:10 pm
Jayden had a pretty good day up to when we left visiting mid-afternoon & it's been quiet the rest of the day & quiet is good. His numbers are slowing but surely getting better & they are even beginning to look ahead to working him off the ECMO (Not any time soon but maybe late in the week or early next week?) They had a minor issue in the circuit flow of the blood flowing out of his body back to the ECMO machine but they made some adjustments & it is working fine now.
(See pictures below...)
Alicia is still slowing getting better but since we are still unhappy about how the OB portion of her care went at the delivering facility we moved her back under the care of her original OB services in our home medical group system today rather than wait & we came in with several concerns that need addressing immediately. The last thing she needs is another blood clot in the lung.
I have to get back to work tomorrow so update will be late in the day unless something drastic happens.
I found a couple of websites that had great explanations of how ECMO works in case anyone is interested.
ECMO Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenationhttp://www.uwhealth.org/healthfacts/B_EXTRANET_HEALTH_INFORMATION-FlexMember-Show_Public_HFFY_1109725221094.html
Frequently Asked Questions for Parentshttp://www.childrenshospital.org/clinicalservices/Site2270/mainpageS2270P6.html#isecmopainful
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