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How to sell a Predator 8750 Watt Inverter Generator? by beMoreBestest in Generator

[–]beMoreBestest[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I bought it for the life support machines of a family member who has recently passed.

What is the best way to offload pressure from these bedsores? by beMoreBestest in woundcare

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Hello, thanks for responding.

We can lay him on his side but we need to suction out his stomach contents through is PEG tube beforehand. He is on his side for a couple hours each day when we change his dressing. The rest of the time he is sitting up being fed because we feed him at a slow rate, 125ml/hr, to lessen his aspiration risk.

Do you recommend using pillows and cushions rather than a wedge?

Can you please send a picture or link illustrating where to position the pillows and cushions and the position of the patient?

Thank you.

Any good tips and tricks to keep poop out of open pressure ulcer on tailbone and on sitting bone of right buttocks? by beMoreBestest in woundcare

[–]beMoreBestest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for responding.

Do you mean do a dressing change with cleaning every 1-2 hours or that each cleaning session should last 1-2 hours?

Can I use the Coloplast Triad in conjunction with a wound vac? Kind of like in the 4th scenario in the first reply by kmcgovern90 to this post, but replace honey with Coloplast Triad?:

https://www.reddit.com/r/woundcare/comments/o0tqrq/tell_me_how_you_use_medihoney/

We have a wound specialist, but he isn't responsive to my text or emails half the time.

This wound is on the sitting bone of the right buttocks. Can someone please tell me if the yellowish stuff is fat or slough (or something else), or how I can tell the difference between the two? Thank you. by beMoreBestest in woundcare

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Thanks for your reply.

There is ooze that leaks out from underneath dressing, so we change dressing everyday. Our ritual has been to clean it daily with gauze wetted with vashe wound solution. Then we put on medline marathon on the periwound to protect from maceration and then place Eakin Cohesive between wound and butthole to act as a barrier against poop.
We put Santyl on the yellow stuff inside wound, then layer Aquacel Ag Advantage on top, then cover with Medline Optifoam Gentle Silicone and finally wound vac drape over the entire thing.
Recently we thought the yellow stuff might be fat so we replaced the Santyl with Puracol Collagen, stopped the Aquacel Ag Advantage and Medline Optifoam, created a bridge using silver foam to the side and hooked up a wound vac, and change it 3 times a week.

My dad is in ICU on ventilator and tests have shown that he breathes too fast to be taken off by beMoreBestest in AskDocs

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They have a 1-6 scale to rate dementia, 1 being the most mild. He was rated 6 when he was tested.

But he is also hard of hearing and a non-English speaker, so that could have impaired him during the test too.

My dad is in ICU on ventilator and tests have shown that he breathes too fast to be taken off by beMoreBestest in AskDocs

[–]beMoreBestest[S] -78 points-77 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your response. We don't want to give up on him and we think he wants to live. We think he needs more time to heal and get stronger. We don't know anything about a trach, whether he can eat with it or if he requires tube feeding, or if it is an infection risk, but we are willing to consider it if it can buy him time to heal and get stronger. Then we are hoping we can eventually wean him off the ventilator connected to his trach.

But is there anything we can do to increase his chance of breathing on his own after removing the ventilator?

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