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Agreed, SJ, that we do not know what happened in the OR. However, it would be HIGHLY unusual to give blood products intraoperatively for these procedures. That would be another quality assurance issue, and a statistic that the docs and hospital would not be very thrilled with. Intra op transfusions are tracked VERY closely by several committees in every hospital.
I have to believe that when she was extubated and sent to PACU, she had good hemostasis. Otherwise, they never would have extubated. They would have packed and left her sedated on the vent, in case she needed emergent return to OR for more oversewing and cautery.
Another reason I'm reluctant to think that there was an intraop disaster is that we haven't heard a PEEP about that from ANYONE. For all of the criticisms from the family and attorney directed at "the hospital" and Dr. Durand, not a single comment has been made that the surgery didn't go well, or that she had major bleeding intraop. No one has criticized the surgeon. Heck-- we don't even know his name without looking it up.
Everything we have heard supports the progression that she was a planned PICU overnight stay, had her surgery, woke up fine and was extubated before she got to PACU (from what I can glean), and was sitting up breathing fine, oozing a bit (not unexpected), and visiting with family (that were actually allowed to come into PACU!). Then, BEFORE change of shift, she was transferred to PICU, again, in stable condition, breathing on her own, from all reports. AND seen and signed out by SOMEONE in the PACU, anesthesiologist or surgeon.
We have no idea what the real sequence of events was after that. The reports from the Uncle are subject to heavy bias, due to him not being there, and the mother passed out and being transported to another part of the hospital for treatment. NW's husband was reportedly there, but hasn't said a word. The grandmother has a lot of problems with her version of the events.
