They say the first 24 hours after surgery is critical. Tyler's 24 hours went very well. He stayed very stable and met his three goals for the day. He needed to have a heart rate less than 160, BP of greater than 60 and oxygen saturation greater than 94. He did very well all day.
We had one minor incident in which he gave us an unneeded scare. They came to change his dressings so we went for a walk but forgot my pump parts so we came back to get them just in time to see the respiratory therapist and the nurse working on him. The nurse then ran out into the hall with his alarms sounding looking for the doctors. The doctors came running into our room along with many respiratory therapists and nurses. They were using the manual breathing assistant and calling out orders for some different medications and Xray! Talk about scaring us! One of the doctors looked at us and said don't worry he is fine. It is hard to believe that when so much is going on. Turns out he had a large amount of mucus that was causing him not to get the full oxygen from the ventilator. The doctor did some deep suction, administered a medication and everything was fine. Though it was hard to see this, we are so glad we did because the response time was amazing. Tyler is fine and they know to keep watching for extra mucus build up. We rested well back at RMH across the street knowing how great the care was for Tyler.
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