Roller Coaster

Well, here we go. They trialed her off ECMO and she was able to come of for 50 minutes until they put her back on the machine. On all previous attempts she went down within a matter of minutes. So being able to sustain herself this long was encouraging. However, every few minutes they draw blood and check different levels of things. One level is called lactate and it shows how her body is profusing blood to the rest of her organs. They like this level under 2 and she was at about 3.8. This is not good. So, it seems that they now want to tighten or band her SANO tube to see if that will effect the amount of blood profusing to her lungs and therefore to the rest of her organs. If they do this and it does not change her lactate levels, then they will know that it is a heart function issue and there is nothing they can do about that.

I think the plan at this point is to wait another 24 hours and trial her off again and possibly tighten the SANO. If we have learned anything here it is that you can't plan anything and every day is different. So I think the rest of the day will be fairly non-eventful.

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