Day 399 - Decreased PEEP to 8!!! 🫁 ⬇️ 😁😁😁
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 Today James had a pulmonology appointment in the afternoon so we needed to cancel physical therapy. We had several things happened during our appointment. 🫁 ⬇️ We decreased James' PEEP from 10 to 8! This is a huge win! We breathe at about a 5. Just a refresher... PEEP is pressure in the lungs at the end of each breath. In mechanically ventilated patients, PEEP works against passive emptying of the lung and collapse of air sacs. Collapse of air sacs can lead to incomplete inflation of the lung on the next breath and reduced oxygenation. 🗣️ Our Pulmonologist wrote another order for a Passy Muir Valve that we should have received by now. In the last month we made no progress with speech therapy, because we were waiting to get the Passy Muir Valve from our DME. He was curious why our DME medical supplier never even contacted us with an update about it in the last month. So his office called the DME while we were there and they said their excuse was that...