Every few hours yesterday we weaned down on Job's flow and over the night he weaned down to ONE LITER! So this morning he got to switch over to the regular nasal cannula! No more hi-flow!
Once we hit 3 lpm, we started going up on his FIO2 to go down on flow, so he's now at 100% oxygen on that 1 lpm. I interrogated the RTs yesterday and last night and learned so much about oxygen support! It helped me finally put into context all of the cannulas and masks and vents Job has had this year, especially the rebreather that saved Job from being intubated in the ER.
He's also gone 36 hours without any pain medication (this hospitalization was only Tylenol and Motrin, but still, yay!).
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