Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 12:09 AM, CDT

Today they attempted to wean her from the nitric oxide, she was at 20 the machine, the went from 20 to 10 to 5 to off. Leaving the setting at each level for 15 minutes to see if she tolerated it well. She did well for about 3 hours and her O2 levels began to drop and she required more oxygen to keep up. The doctor put her back on the machine but at a level of 10 with a plan to try again tomorrow to wean her off. She has to be able to come off of the nitric oxidie before they can wean her off the ventilator. It was a very disappointing day but still progess was made since her nitric level was decreased by half.

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