Raising a Ventilator Dependent-Child with Congenital Scoliosis and Everything Beautiful in Between
I just passed my RN Medical-Surgical certification exam yey!! For nurses, it is always good to take extra steps in our career like acquiring certification in areas that we practice. I am currently working in Surgical Specialty Floor so I intend to take the RN Med-Surg Certification (RN-BC). Acquiring this certification can…
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Finally, Dana has been transitioned to a home vent called Trilogy. She was previously tried on the other called LTV but she unfortunately didn’t do well with it. This Trilogy, they say, is more suited for her because it gives her breaths the moments she breathes. We are going home with it. And it is…
Read MoreUpdate: She is now bigger..and that’s not because of fluids. Thank God, baby Dana has been doing well this week. The plan still is to wean her totally from the rest of her iv meds and the ventilator. They have been slowly weaning her this week..really slow to make sure that they won’t have to…
Read MoreShe may be weaned tomorrow from the oscillator to a regular ventilator. Please say a prayer for her, we ask of you. They tried to bag her through the ventilator today to know what pressure they need to adjust the regular vent just incase they wean her off from the oscillator, they were happy that…
Read MoreThis would probably be the hardest blog I ever wrote. Hardest in the sense that as I am blogging about my beautiful baby, I am desperately missing her so much. Dana Gabrielle. We chose that name because we knew from my ultrasound that she has a curved spine, severe that is. We already knew that…
Read MoreUpdate: Baby Dana is slowly weaned from the oscillator (high pressure ventilator) ..from mean a pressure yesterday (sunday) of 24 and today she is down to 21. Oxygen of 62% yesterday and today its 53%. Her oxygen saturation is above 85’s. They had to reposition the et tube earlier 5am because chest xray showed it…
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