Any chance of survival? On 100% ventilator and 88% saturation

[esteeossy]

Update on my husband .

This is the second time the doctor is calling me to come see my husband as he may no pass the night. His ventilator settings is 100% oxygen now, PEEP 16, pressure 56, co2 5.2, blood pressure 102/61 though fluctuating. The consern is his saturation which is 87 - 88%. . They said with the sat as low as this, he may not survive.

Please has any survivor been in this situation,?

He is on BP med. As his BP is low...Heavily sedated, on paralysis drug, and plenty other drugs i don't know.

His lungs is still., on daily dialysis, and been giving bloods severally.

Has been on ventilator since 12th of January.

[Sepsur]

Yes estee - I was in your husbands position. About 3 months after discharge, I met with one of the ICU consultants.

When I had woken after 57 days, all the staff referred to me as ‘The Miracle’ and that I had been the sickest person in the hospital.

I asked him what was the chance of someone surviving septic shock. He said “Bearing in mind how progressed your condition was, we would see a mortality rate of 40-50%”

So I asked “ And what if you had Severe ARDS on top of that ?”

He said,” We expect 40-50% mortality with this condition”.

So I asked, “ What are the figures for someone who has septic shock, sepsis, double pneumonia, avian flu, strepA,severe ARDS, VRE,CMV, MSSA, EBV,HHV6 & glandular fever AND leukaemia?”

He said, “ There are no figures for people like you, why do you think they called you the miracle?”

[FamilyHistorian]

At the moment I think the doctors are dammed if they do and dammed if they don’t. I was in hospital a year ago and my family were called in twice.

I was ventilated / sedated for for nearly 2 months as I wouldn’t come round. Once I was more aware when they used to come round to do the sats I used to huff and puff to try and get the readings up, more often than not I would be put back on O2 for a while.

I have recently started to monitor my sats at home and the readings range from 86 to 96% fortunately normally over 90% and occasionally over 95% the preferred minimum. But that is another story.

Don’t forget the hospital are caring for your husband; you must care for yourself.