A Rough Night

Lynnea had a rough night, and continues to struggle this morning. Overnight her blood pressures continued to run much lower than anyone is OK with (at one point she hit as low as 40/20), and she required a few fluid boluses to try to bring them back up, so in the end, she was put back on Epinephrine. Her temperature spiked up to 102.9 before it finally came down with Ibuprofen. She was also having a very difficult time breathing, so her ventilator settings are back up to a PEEP of 10, with a Rate of 30 (prior to this she was at a PEEP of 6, Rate of 10), which means the ventilator is doing pretty much all of the work of breathing for her again because she can't handle it on her own.

This morning she has required yet another fluid bolus (more blood pressure drops), and they have needed to increase her Epi dose. There is some talk of going up even further on her PEEP, sometime today as well. Her temp is currently 101.8 and climbing. Hopefully she'll stabilize again sometime soon.