Posted by Becky
It's been a busy morning. The surgeons plan to treat Leif's potential abscess (there doesn't seem to be a lot of fluid, but they want to open it up and drain it) sometime this morning. Currently they're doing some setup in the OR, and tanking Leif up with a unit of blood and two of platelets. He already got one unit of platelets, and they will run another while Leif is getting the surgery. They are going to anaesthetize him for this one.
Although it is higher risk to do the surgery when his platelets and neutrophils are so low, the risks of this infection getting worse outweigh the surgical risks.
Leif's had an intermittent fever (they're keeping it down with Tylenol) and feels pretty blah this morning. His butt only hurts badly when he stands up; it's hardly painful at all when he's lying down or, oddly, sitting. He's napping while he gets his blood.
The new IV antibiotic they're giving him isnot Daptomycin, but Merrem (meropenem), which targets bacterial infections.
It's been a busy morning. The surgeons plan to treat Leif's potential abscess (there doesn't seem to be a lot of fluid, but they want to open it up and drain it) sometime this morning. Currently they're doing some setup in the OR, and tanking Leif up with a unit of blood and two of platelets. He already got one unit of platelets, and they will run another while Leif is getting the surgery. They are going to anaesthetize him for this one.
Although it is higher risk to do the surgery when his platelets and neutrophils are so low, the risks of this infection getting worse outweigh the surgical risks.
Leif's had an intermittent fever (they're keeping it down with Tylenol) and feels pretty blah this morning. His butt only hurts badly when he stands up; it's hardly painful at all when he's lying down or, oddly, sitting. He's napping while he gets his blood.
The new IV antibiotic they're giving him is
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