Cardiology came by today to try and decide on a plan of action for Elizabeth. They did an Echo on her heart, will know the results later once it is read. The cardiologist I spoke to seemed really great, but maybe thats because she kinda is doing what I hoped for. She thinks it would be best to increase the Sildenafil medication for pulmonary hypertension over the next 3 days and see if that makes it easier to wean off the nitric oxide. Once they are about to totally wean off, they will do another echo when she is on 1 of nitric oxide and then an echo when she is off and see if they can determine just how well she responds to nitric. IF they can gain enough info from those echos she wont have to have the cardiac cath done. Which would be great, I am very fearful of the cath being done since there is such a high risk invovled with it. That being said this "plan" will definatley be a very slow process meaning at least towards the end of next week before she "might" be off the nitric. And then we still have to determine a treatment plan. It makes me feel a bit better that they are not rushing to do a cath without trying all other possible means first.
Of course her IV has went bad and a new one needs to be started! This will be her 3rd one in a little over a week! They tried earlier and had to stick her twice with no luck. We requested that they give her something to keep her calm since she gets so upset and her heart rate gets too high (in our opinion). So when they come back to try again, they plan to give her some medicine first to calm her.
So thats the news for now, pulmonary will be by later to discuss anything they have decided to do/change but for the most part I think things will remain the same until she comes off the nitric.
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