What now!

My poor dad is back on a high vent after catching yet another infection, they've said it's another pnemonia caused by the vent! He also need a litre of blood and more medication. He's also being proned every night considering he's only ever needed it once 1 night 21 days ago and now it's every night! I was confused as to why he needed blood. It was a nurse I spoke to and she was really busy as I understand but left me and my family worrying.

[Pandysgirls]

That happened to my husband as well they explained to me because they constantly taking tests and bloods they do need to top them up now and again as on the vent they not replacing bloods like you would do normally Hope this helps you 🙏🏼

[Hidden in reply to Pandysgirls]

Oh is that the reason makes sense. Its just another thing to add to list the poor people are going through thankyou for that.

[Sepsur]

I think there was a time when I was having blood taken every hour and various ruptures around the place meant I was losing a bit of blood. If you imagine that your body isn’t replenishing itself very well - I needed a bit of a top up 😀

[Mccarthy0702]

My dad had to have blood a lot during his time in ICU and I wasn’t sure why . His kidneys failed and he was on dialysis after the first week and I thought maybe that had something to do with needing blood . Xx