Traveling Around the Hospital

During early morning rounds, Dr. St. Louis decided that Lynnea' should have a CT scan today to look for any sources of infection that might have been overlooked because, even with great antibiotic coverage, she continues to have persistent fevers. Shortly after this, the decision was made that she would also have a PICC line placement today (not sure whose idea it was to get a PICC line; I can't say I'm surprised by it, but I was still kind of hoping to avoid it), since she would have to travel to another part of the hospital for the CT scan, it made sense to get a PICC line while she was out and about rather than trying to move her twice. This made perfect sense. Then there was some confusion about her contrast dye allergy (they use contrast dye when they do CT scans) and how long beforehand Lynnea has to have Benadryl before they can use the dye. After trying to explain it to people all day, and not getting anywhere (I tried telling everyone that it's fine to just give Benadryl right before giving dye, and then a few hours later giving her another dose of Benadryl has always worked in the past), everything was postponed until tomorrow. Then Dr. St. Louis showed up. He was angry that everything was postponed, so he went to talk to everyone involved about it, and Lynnea did end up getting both the CT scan, and the PICC line this afternoon. I haven't heard any results from the CT scan yet, and the PICC line placement went fine.

Not much else has changed today. They did manage to wean her ventilator settings a little bit. She's now has a PEEP of 6, rate of 10, and is still at 45% oxygen. Also, her feedings have increased to 22 mL's per hour.