The doctors did a follow up 4 am chest x-ray. From the x-ray the found out that she was still doing good with out the chest tube. No air was coming back into her chest. Although she is doing good with out with out it, it looks like she has some developing premature lung disease. What they are looking at is call Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) What is this? Because Emily is on a ventilator that pumps for her (very fast) and the tissues in her lungs are thinner than a tissues that we us blow our nose, they can be damaged from the ventilator. The good news from what I read is that she has constant and appropriate care she will get better. The bad news is the process of weaning from oxygen and respirator dependency can take several years.
The good thing is that she is still doing great with her blood pressure! She was down to 35% oxygen. They did have to go up on the pressure of her ventilator (which is expected- to go up and down over and over - until shes better) to 24%. She's peeing a little to much so they need to increase what they put in.
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