Day 16 - Lungs
1/15/21 - Friday Morning : Convo with Doctor - Off the gentamicin antibiotics. Tomorrow morning getting a chest and abdominal X-ray and a metabolic panel to check electrolytes and such. CBC and Blood gas will be done today to check all levels of blood and CO2 to see if James might need another blood transfusion. Still at 3 ML of feed and is tolerating it, which is good. Will move up to 4 ML tonight to see how that works for the next 3 feeds during a 9 hours window. Which will lower the TPN rate. By 3am, we should know. Getting Glycerin tablet to help with with bowel movement, since he hasn’t had one in the past 18 hours or so. Saliva swab came back fine. The culture is showing no growth in urine, saliva, and the second blood culture. X-ray shows that the lungs are experiencing chronic changes, which is considered a lung disease at this point. We’d like to see a decrease in the oxygen and ventilation. If this persists, there is a possibility for using a s...