Saturday at the Hospital

Weekends at the hospital are notorious for being a bit boring. Today was no exception. Lynnea's blood pressures continue to fluctuate, her fever is back up to 101.2, she's on the same amount of oxygen as yesterday, her chest is still open, and her left lung doesn't sound very good. Her left lung didn't really sound good even before surgery, so this isn't exactly a new problem. They saw on her chest X-ray on Tuesday that she had a pleural effusion on the left lung (fluid building up), that Dr. St. Louis had hoped to drain when he did the wash out/ECMO decannulization on Wednesday, but he wasn't able to get it completely drained off, so it continues to be a problem. There is also some concern that it doesn't sound like a lot of blood is being shunted to her left lung through her new B-T shunt (it wasn't flowing to the left with the old shunt, so this is also not exactly a new problem, it's just one that everyone hoped would get better with the new shunt). There is still a possibility that Dr. Bryant will try to close her chest up tomorrow sometime, but no definite plans have been made.