Arrhythmia

Last night and this morning dad had a few episodes of a arrhythmia

(of the atrial tachycardia variety, for anyone who's interested in such

things), due to his "irritable" heart. They've given him Amiodarone -

a medication with some gnarly potential side effects - to help control

it. There isn't really any other choice.

Because of the arrhythmias, they won't scale back the sedation or

ventilator today - they don't want to do that until everything else is

stable. Since he won't be coming off the ventilator today, they are

planning to start tube feeding him so he starts to get some nutrition.