Not Moving Forward

As expected, extubation was not an option today, and does not look hopeful for tomorrow either. Her ventilator settings are now a PEEP of 7 (didn't try to wean that today -- thought about it, but she was struggling to breathe, so they didn't turn it down), rate of 12 (which is down from 20 this morning, but like I said, she's been struggling so it might go back up some before morning), and oxygen at 45%. Her temperature today was about the same as yesterday -- still feverish, the highest I saw was 102.2. Nothing else has changed. They tried to turn off her Epinepherine this morning because she's on such a small dose anyway, but when they turned it off, her blood pressures dropped, so they turned it back on, and now she's on a little more than she was yesterday.