Ventilated covid dad has routine nightly setbacks

[TB07]

My dad has been ventilated 30 days now and trached. He will have several days of gradual progress ( down to 40% oxygen, low fentanyl, low versed, will open eyes during FaceTime). But he has these setbacks every few days ALWAYS occurring at night. The nurses can’t explain it, but he basically begins to breathe over the vent and desatts and they are forced to increase oxygen and sedation to get his oxygen saturation up. There is some sort of nightly issue causing this but the nurses don’t seem to look into it and just attribute it to his damaged lungs. My gut tells me it’s something else, and I’m hopeful if we can correct it we can continue his progress with fewer drastic setbacks. Help?!?!?

[Sepsur]

I always had setbacks at night, my unit was constantly looking for the culprit, I was in ICU for 90 days. In my case, I’m pretty sure it was down to a type of leukaemia that I was diagnosed with in icu, although it was put down to glandular fever which I contracted in ICU - with the content of some of my ICU delirium fresh in my mind - I’m intrigued as to how I got this - it’s nickname is kissing disease

[FamilyHistorian]

In my case although I was in ICU for non covid related at night I suffered from anxiety fearing that if I went to sleep I would not wake up. This really strange bearing in mind I was sedated and ventilated at the time. Also I am told that the slightest physio durinng the day exhausted me for 24 hours again I was out of it so don't really know.

[lynnmarr]

My husband's doctor used to say with Covid it can be two steps forward, one step back?