Today turned out to be a longer than expected day. Before they began to start “testing” Keegan’s heart repair by weaning him off the ECMO machine they decided to do an EKG first. It sounded like it was pretty standard procedure before reducing...
They are beginning the ECMO wean in a few minutes. As Gray wrote earlier this morning, they will reduce the amount of work the ECMO is doing (by about half) and see how his heart responds. We are optimistic about the results, but...
Sorry about not posting a morning Blog...
Keegan has been doing well. We have been making trips back to see him and we really do see a lot of activity out of him. His eyes are closed most of the time but then you will hold his hand and he...
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Keegan had a pretty stable night. His heart rate went up from the day shift, so they put him on a cooling pad and reduced the temp of the blood coming in from the ECMO. This reduced his body temp and his heart...
Not too much new news...
Hey everyone! Maddie and I returned to the Hospital abut 8:30am after being sent home on surgeons' orders. We were able to go right in and see Keegan. He was looking much better. He had better color than he did last...
Keegan was in surgery for almost 10 hours yesterday. The blog updates seem to be back and forth because we were updating as we got tiny snippets of info from the operating room. After they finished the repair of the ventrical septal defect...