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I'm sorry it's taken us so long to update. I know that many of you were waiting to hear about the wean. The short answer is that it didn't happen, and we now are actively awaiting a heart transplant. As we said...

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...

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...