MY MOM has been in S.I.C.U. for a month from sepsis from surgery?

Question:

her pulse is high and her respirations are 40-50, fever of 100, receiving 50 percent of oxygen in her trach ventilater. what does all this mean? also the doctor wants to take her off her antiobiotics-isn't that dangerous? or is it bad to keep her on them for such a period of time?

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Sorry to hear about your mom...Sepsis, or septicemia as it's called is extremely dangerous and life threatening. If your mom has been in the hospital for a month with this illness and she's still sick, something is not being done right. Sepsis can be controlled, maintained, and cured by IV antibiotics. However, the doctors have to use the correct ones. The way they find out which antibiotics are useful is to draw blood cultures. These cultures are placed onto petri dishes allowing them to grow the bacteria. The lab will produce a result with what the bacteria is sensitive to and what it's resistant to. Usually there are 2 or 3 antibiotics that can be used as treatment. That's the medical side to it. Here's the business side...if you're mom has insurance, the hospital could be 'milking it'. There is no way that a person should be septic in ICU for a month. Get her out of there and place her somewhere else. Or call a private physician in to treat her. Look for an infectious disease doctor. Good luck.

wish you all the best, this sounds pretty serious, just stick to her doctors' advice and ask them to explain things, good luck

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