sounds like they still want to extubate before 4 pm.
huge.
i'll probably hang here to make sure she's not rocky after.
my opinion of events: i think the floor was slow to respond to multiple alarms. slow meaning, no one responded. like people at the desk and stuff, and there's multiple alarms ringing and no one even coming to pat us on the head and say we're being alarmist.
instead...would you leave the room if you were the one witnessing those alarms alone? yeah, i thought so. jen's staying here for the duration.
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You are so correct. I am involved in patient safety. If I were you, I wouldn't leave Zoe for a minute.
ReplyDeleteStill, it is wonderful that Zoe is receiving the kind of care that she is. Once the nurse was convinced of a problem (thanks to you) they all came running when Zoe crashed.
In Canada (public health care with covert rationing policies) when my daughter Annie (trisomy 13) "crashed" on the ward, only the respiratory therapist came. She started bagging Annie. The doctor eventually ambled in, took a blood test and left. The records show that nobody even called the ICU for over an hour.
Once we were in the ICU, my husband noticed the SAT numbers plummeting. The nurse had turned off the alarms without telling us. A DNR had been placed without our consent.
Be grateful that you live in the United States and that sweet Zoe is being treated like any other child.
You are wise to know that even still, mistakes happen.
Barb (Annie's mom)
www.anniefarlow.com
When I complained about that sort of lack-of-responsiveness (same hospital, same PICU) the doctors assured me that the nurses really were paying attention, that they were watching the monitors carefully and knew what was going on, and that they were responding appropriately. I think I believe that. But like the previous commenter said, we still didn't leave our daughter alone. We watched monitors. We kept our own notes on BP and Ox-Sat and Pulse, and doctors' plans for the day, and which nurse and respiratory therapists were assigned to our daughter on which shifts. Daddy slept at Ronald McDonald House while I sat in ICU, and he sat in ICU while I grabbed a nap. One of us stayed there awake every minute. And even though I think I believe the doctors about the nurses' attention being greater than I felt it to be, I wasn't taking any chances. I'm glad you're staying there with Zoe! It's exhausting, but it's important.
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