Another Chest Tube

After three doses of IV diuretics overnight and being on a restricted amount of clear liquids, Santi's X-ray showed no improvement this morning. 

The X-ray on the right is from the day of his discharge last week​ and the left is from this morning. You can see all the pleural effusion (fluid around his lung) built up in the right side of his chest. 

We went to interventional radiology around 11am. They took him back for his new chest tube around 11:30. This is a different tube than he had before. It's called a "pig tail." It's smaller in diameter and has a perforated end that curls around, thus the name, pig tail. I was back by his side by 12:30pm. He was still sedated and sleeping. ​

The doctor said that he drained 250cc when the tube went in, that's a lot of fluid! All of the fluid was putting pressure on his lung causing it to collapse. This is why his sats were dropping so low. 

I don't really know what to expect now. We will watch the drainage and tweak his medications​. Same old, same old.