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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
Thats almost surely secondary to what he had originally. If it was noscomical (hospital aquired) did he spike a temp today? or had a temp gradually rise over the last few days?
Kids and pneumonia, in general, fall into two categories:
- Quick spike is usually bacterial pnemonia and the IV antibotics will kill it quickly.
- If the fever has got worse over a couple of days its probably viral pnemonia. They will just treat the symptoms until the virus tuns its course.
Just make sure he does his spiromentry correctly. It' will keep those alveoli open and not give the pneumonia bugs a chance to settle. The IV antibiotics will kill the pneumonia bugs. They are on it before the pneumonia got bad. He's eventually going to be okay. Children's Mercy rocks. |
I've seen a tremendous difference from this morning at Via Christi to now at Childrens Mercy hospital. He's drinking, he's eating, and, occasionally, giggling.
I will say CMH looks like patch adams exploded.