No more ECMO

Its nice, the room looks strangely empty because the ECMO is gone.

The operation went well and was done by the head surgeon of cardiac surgery.  It wasn't like he needed that sort of skill level but, he happened to be available so it was nice to know he had the best.

Turns out the surgeon had just come from a heart transplant.  Wow...  I heard that went well also.

He is still on the respirator.  Hopefully tomorrow we will know the plan for him so we will know when he gets to come home.  But, this was a huge step and he is responding really well.

Here are some familiar screens just so you can see what it looks like with him off of ECMO.

Here is the vent

And here is his Xray.  Check out how different it is from a few days ago.

Things to note.
1) His bilirubin is high but, hopefully that was because of ECMO.  Its just something they will be watching.
2) They were able to stitch the artery back together but, they couldn't with the vein they used.  Apparently this is pretty common.  It sort of freaked us out until we talked to nurse Ian who explained they use the exterior jugular (look up by the left ear).  Apparently the body will compensate and this is the standard process.  It isn't a major vein just something to note.

Anyway, that's enough for the tech talk.  Here are some pictures.

And a movie (He is sleeping)

Have a good night.