March 29, 2010

MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2010 9:45 PM, CDT

Today was not as great as the past several days. The good news is that they're planning to take Liam off the vent in the next 24-48 hours. The bad news is he has pneumonia again. They also did an ET tube culture, blood culture, and PICC culture today. Though we don't have final results (or preliminary ones for the blood & PICC cultures), the preliminary results of his tube culture were positive for some kind of antibiotic resistant bacteria, so he is getting 2 different antibiotics right now - vancomycin and gentamicin. I'm hoping the other two cultures come back negative!

He was also very unsettled today. He bounced back and forth between sats that were too high and sats that were too low. The too-highs are good - meaning the amount of oxygen he's getting, or the vent settings, need to be lowered. The too-lows aren't good. He had no middle ground today - when I say he bounced back and forth between the extremes, I mean it. He also required very frequent suctionings today. The nurse did say he seems to finally be settling down when we called a little while ago.