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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Trans Esophigial Echo
Not only do we know that the TEE procedure is about, we know what the acronym stands for...
They needed separate consent for the TEE...
-Stil, crossing-x-fingers
-Piper
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Labels: cardioaversion, Consent' Kim, TEE
aphone Consent
Just a lil FYI, just shortly after 08:00am I gave phone consent for Kim to get anestesia for the cardioaversion procedure.
-fingers-Xfcrossed-
-Piper
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Labels: Anestesia, Cardioversion, TEE
Monday, May 26, 2008
Cardioversion and Dialysis and Doctors, Oh My!
Well lass than 1 hour ago, I gave 'phone consent' for Kim to have a procedure called Cardioaversion.
No, Kim's not 'gone' again mentally, but she was actively having Dialysis done, and didn't feel right getting consent from her while that was happening.
The cardioaversion is something we've been waiting on/expecting for a while and I know that i've bloged about it more than enough recently so I won't bore u with details of that again...
But I can finally tell you more about the TEE...
For the TEE what they are going to do is send a ultrasound probe down the feeding tube which is still in (because she has a sore throat causing her problems eating solid food). Then since the end of the feed tube lies right next to the heart they can get a clear view t look to se if there are any bloodclots that might be hiding in the far corners...
That's what we know for now. The bad heart rythm could come back after the cardioaversion, but we ned to do something...
And I have to say, the future always looks brighter when you have an aggressive plan of action!
-Happy and Brave(ishk) Little Girl!
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Labels: cardioaversion, Consent, kim, Stuff, TEE, UPenn
Monday, April 28, 2008
Another kim update for the day....
Well the Cardioaversion or TEE (heard it caled both but I guess they could be different) will not happen today. They are going to do a chest x-ray to lok at the fluids on the lungs :)
They are tenatively scheduleing for tomorrow but it's all still up in the air.
The are afraid her oxygen absorbtion is too low for the TEE (which I just found out is when they use a probe through the stomache to check out the heart to check for blockage). They are currently afraid there is a new blockage.. Joy...
The MICU attendings have come by and said she's too healthy to move to MICU which is good, but we never knew they were looking into that... Aparently they might do a drip to remove more fluid. They just lowered her Bumex (diuretic) drip to 1.6mL/hr it was 3.2mL/hr...
They are doing 'blood gas' right now... will post more when I know more.
-Piper
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Labels: cardioaversion, CHF, deborah, KimEM, MICU, TEE
