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icu lower the sedation Propofol or whatever then she start shivering so bad that they have to add mor sedation propofel to stop it. we stuc

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I have a question about my mother icu condition. after cardiac arrest she was responding and they did some type of thematic hyperthermia treatment where they froze her for almost two days and gave her a heavy dose of propofol something like that and when time tom to lower the dose she have the shakes chill so bad that they have to give her more prof sedation to get her to stop shaking and now they can take the sedation down or she will shake, it's been a week and not all the meds is messing with her kidneys today they had to put a stent in her. can anybody help mansfieldtone@yahoo.com

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