Day 98 - Diuretics Use in Neonates & 1st Hold with Trach
Wednesday, April 7th, 2021 Today is Pop-pop's Birthday! He would have been 69 today. James Weston was named after his Pop-pop and will carry on the legacy of the great name. His middle name, Weston, means "from the Western town". James was born in Tampa Bay, on Florida's West Coast. Update: His weigh in last night was 3340grams (7lb 5oz). So he lost 10 grams. His feeds were changed from bolus feeds at 56 mls during the day and then continuous feed at night of 22 calories/ 22mls an hour. James has been making sounds shown in the videos below. There is a leak around his cuff. When he had his ET tube that was a 3.5. The trach is a 3.0. There is a cuff filled with 1ml of saline it goes around the trach. So there is some room around that cuff but also we think when James has these little broncos spasms he bears down and squeezes some of the water out. We had a couple of RTs check the cuff yesterday by taking out the saline and measuring it and it was not measuring 1 ml bot...