Carter was placed back on the ventilator today because the CPAP was not opening his lung cells as much as they had wanted. They are also doing vibration therapy to his chest every 4 hours to help bring up some mucous that has settled in the lungs. He did get another dose of surfactant and NP Michelle reported that his chest x-ray already looks better. They expect that they will be able to get him back off the ventilator tomorrow but wanted to give him a little break.
His urine production has increased somewhat but not enough so they are consulting a nephrologist to come in take a peek at what his kidneys are doing that may be preventing him from peeing enough and causing his sodium to drop. His sodium is a bit higher than it was at 128 but isn't quite where they would like it. He will be in tonight so I will try to give an update when I know more.
As you can see from the picture below if the Zorro mask is outside of the palace it can't possibly be on Carter. Although I would like to say he ripped it off and threw it out of his palace I can't but he did get rid of the excess bilirubin and is off phototherapy.
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