Extubation intrepidation - Aria MacDonald

Extubation intrepidation

15 Apr at 10:52 am by Anita MacDonald

6pm Gas still good (49)!!!  Next one midnight

LAST GAS IMPROVED AGAIN (48)- almost perfect WOW

O2 stats 100%!

Temp 36.7

Heart rate 132

Oxygen rate dropped to 80%!

All good 😀

ICU Doc yelling down the phone GO ARIA!! after the tech phoned in the last great gas!  All good

The tube is out!

Aria got off to a hairy start pretty quickly.  Her O2 stats dropped to 84 and her gas went up (58).  Both bad both scary.  And this was within about 15 mins of the tube being out.  It was not looking to be off to a good start.  Gosh it was so so hard.

So they bumped up her oxygen going into her nose to 100% and made it go in faster.  She is on the high flow nasal prongs.  They also suctioned her nose a bunch of times and that helped and gave her some meds to calm her down.

The next gas stayed about the same (61) and they said they would give her another hour and if it kept getting worse they would intubate. 🙁

Hamish came back from dropping Asher off at daycare and my head was such a mess.  I just sat in the cafe and pleaded with God and begged him to allow Aria to fly and for us to be at peace with whatever He choose for today.  This verse came into my head

This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.  Psalm 118:24

This is God’s day and we will rejoice should He choose extubation OR a trach.

This hour Aria’s gases came back IMPROVED !! (52)

And her O2 stats are 100%

WOW, we have NEVER had improved gases on extubation.  They had given her another 2 hours now to see.

PLEASE KEEP PRAYING!!!