Code Blue

Last night around 11:45pm Lynnea coded. They did CPR on her for about 20 minutes, gave her six code doses of Epi, and shocked her twice before managing to get a heart rhythm back. They also intubated her, so she is back on full ventilator support. She is still on a high dose of Epi (the "normal" range for an Epi drip is usually 0.05-0.08, she is currently on 0.2) and she is also on IV Milrinone. During CPR, strong pulses were felt in all four extremities, so the belief is that she had decent blood flow to the brain. Her pupils have been reactive, she moves all four extremities, she has tears, and she occasionally over-breathes the ventilator -- all of which are good signs that there hopefully was no serious brain damage.

The plan for today is to do an echocardiogram, and try to formulate some sort of plan from there.