Semi-Stable Day

Lynnea remained fairly stable much of the day, though she seems to be having a tough time keeping her blood pressures up again; they have had to increase her epinephrine significantly compared to the amount she required before surgery yesterday, and she also needs occasional extra fluid boluses to keep her pressures up. She ran a low grade fever all day, and spiked as high as 101.8, at which point Tylenol was given. None of the cultures that were taken during surgery yesterday have come back with anything positive, so the plan now is to wait until tomorrow morning (giving the cultures 48 hours), and if nothing has come back positive, they will take her off from all of her antibiotics so that, if she really does have some sort of infection somewhere that is being partially suppressed by the antibiotics, they will be able to culture her blood, urine, and sputum with the hopes of getting a positive culture so that they can identify what sort of bacteria they are trying to fight.