Day 586 - Pulmonology Appointment 🫁
Monday, August 8th, 2022 We were expecting to go into this pulmonology appointment with James getting trials off the vent. In our last appointment a month ago with the doctor he said that all of James' vent settings were low enough to start trials. However this appointment we didn't get to see our doctor, since he was scheduled for rounds at the hospital. We saw the nurse practitioner instead. She was under the impression that James still needed to lower his ventilator settings before having trials off the vent. We were crushed as we had been waiting for this for the last month. These are the things we discussed: Lowered Pressure Support from 18 to 15 and Respiratory Rate from 25 to 20. We asked for another prescription to an antibiotic because we believe his trach infection never cleared with the last round. We were prescribed Cipro this time. His secretions were still thick and yellow. We did an end tidal C02 test which looked great. We talked about starting his monthly synag...