I recently encountered a patient with severe right sided heart failure that was to have a hernia repaired under local with sedation. Did I mention to you that he also hade a defibrillator and pacemaker implanted? As "luck" would have it, I pulled the assignment. When sitting up, the patient's oxygenation saturation read 94% Unfortunately, you can't do surgery sitting up. When I put him into the supine position, with oxygen running at 4 liters per minute by cnnnula, then 8 liters per minute by mask, under light sedation, his saturation was a whomping 79 %. This all occurred within the first 5 minutes of the case. The surgeon was attuned to the sound of the dropping pulse oximeter, and asked if anything was wrong. I told him a speedy surgical time would be greatly appreciated, and switched into full energy mode. With running energy on him, the saturation came up to 92%. At the end of the surgery. upon sitting him up on his stretcher, his oxygenation returned to his baseline, and once again thanked the powers that be that I am trained in Quantum-Touch.
Posts: 49 | Location: New Hope, PA | Registered: 24 October 2003
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