Hello. my mom has been in S.I.C.U for a month now someone should know or has had?

Question:

sepsis. Can you please tell me if she is having septic shock. her fever is 100 now. her respirations are 45. She is on a trach ventilater
what should I be looking for when I am going into her room at the hospital? she has been kept on morphine for a week now and is not waking up. please help

Answers:
Sepsis is a bacterial infection in the blood. It doesn't happen after surgery as much now days as it used to. A fever of 100 is not bad when you have sepsis. A low grade fever generally means her body is still responding to the infection and trying to fight it which is a good sign. A high fever would not be good. Look, the medical care and the doctors time is being paid for so you should ask questions. He is paid to answer them. Are they still drawing blood cultures. That is where they prep the skin with a solution that looks like iodine and they put the blood into bottles. If not you should ask the doctor if more blood cultures should be ordered. Also, ask him what bacteria she has in her blood. Ask the specific name of the bacteria. They should also be running Antibiotic sensitivities on the bacteria to make sure that the bacteria is sensitive to the antibiotic that they are using and that it has not developed a resistance to it. If it has become resistant than they need to change the antibiotic. If you can get the name of the bacteria then you can research the prognosis and outlook for septicemia caused by that particular bacteria. Septicemia can take longer than a month to treat and cure. All I can tell you is to ask a lot of questions and stay very involved in her treatment. Let them know that you want to know everything that is happening. Ask the doctor what her prognosis is. He should tell you. I would also recommend prayer. Get your entire church to pray. There is power in prayer and power in numbers. Find out if she has MRSA. If so, make sure they are not using clindamycin or erythromycin as the antibiotic.

I'm so sorry. When you visit her, take music that she might remember, any recordings of voices that may be familiar with her. Talk to her about your day, include sights and sounds, flavors and scents. Wear a perfume she knows - try to introduce as much familiarity into her environment that you can - and tell her that you want her to come back. People survive it, but it is a hard road - God Bless

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