What does it look like?
/What does it look like to have your child return from open heart surgery?
When we saw Santiago for the first time yesterday, post-op, this is what we saw:
his chest was closed
Extubated (breathing tube out)
he was on 5 liters of oxygen
Central line in his neck
IV in one hand and one foot
Arterial line in his groin measuring blood pressure
Urine catheter
Medial chest tube and right side chest tube draining fluid
Pulse oximeter on his finger reading the oxygen saturation in his blood
leads and wires measuring his heart rate, respiratory rate, etc