Thursday, January 31, 2013

Doctor said Brody sounds better, but he is no where near better yet as far as oxygenation goes.  The Albuterol is giving him a high heart rate, so they are going to try a different drug with less cardio side effects.  The medical term was that it gave him tachycardia (high heart rate).  The issue is that it is only available in pre-mixed vials vs. the concentrate, so they do not have enough on site to keep him on a continuous neb.  If it works they will need to bring more in from another hospital.  If he does not turn the corner with this new drug in the next two hours, they are sending him to Children's.  At Children's, the treatment would be more of the same, but there would be the comfort of having a technology there that isn't available in St Cloud.  Not that he would need it, but the comfort of being near the cardic surgeons would be there.  The possibility would be a heart-lung bypass machine.  But we don't want to think about that.

His echo reading was good.  All for now, I'll keep posting as more comes our way.

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