The Overdose Zac has another Arrest

29th May 2008
Day Plus 42!!! At 4am this morning Zac had an arrest. I was feeling very scarred. Everything went a little wrong as Zac was arresting the nurse went to grab the bag and connect it to the oxygen but there was no high flow vale to connect to. So another nurses had to run and get the crash cart. Mean while they are working on Zac. A code blue was called and every doctor came running that was on and the ICU team was there too. Why this happened yes you guessed it he was overdosed while sort of. No one had overdosed him but he had so many drugs on board that it was too much for his body to cope with. Zac doctor came in to see him and me with the pain team and they were all very sorry it had happened. What had happened was they gave him his 11pm drugs than they gave his 1pm drugs at 11:30pm because he was needed them as Zac was having big time withdrawers. They then gave him is 1am drugs at 1 and gave 8 boluses of Fentanol between 1 and 4am in the morning there was just too many Narcotics in his body. Zac had a MRI done today and a LP. LP showed nothing which is good and the MRI was fine other than the fact he has fluid around the brain. The doctors said that they believe this is because of the steroids he is on and this can happen from this. Once you come off the steroids the fluid will go away. The doctor also said that they could not be 100% sure on this and they will do a follow MRI later on down the track with Zac to confirm all of this.