Due to the aspiration, they performed a bronchoscopy on May 29th. The had to sedate him in order to put the scope down into his lungs, they also wanted to check out his airway and stomach area during this time. His left lung was perfect, his right lung had a small amount of scar tissue, but it was very little compared to what they thought they would see. This was very good news.
Since he was getting sedated and had to be at the hospital anyway, they also did a pH Probe. The probe study was to measure the amount of reflux he was having. The results of the pH probe was very surprising. In 24 hours he had 126 episodes of level 3 reflux. Level 3 is the worst level of reflux anyone can have. The episodes lasted an average of 7.5 minutes, the smallest one lasting just over 5 minutes. From these results they determined that in those 24 hours he refluxed at least 15-18 hours.
Late that evening, Garak began to have a very high fever of 103°. They continued to give him meds to get the fever down, but it didn't seem like the meds were helping. They let Garak go home the following evening thinking the fever was not due to the scope, but perhaps his reaction to Aesthetics and morphine. They sent us home telling us to continue a Motrin/Tylenol regimen. He continued the fever for 7 days at which time they put him on Azithromycin, which is an antibiotic. They were pretty sure he had pneumonia due to the bronchoscopy. On June 5, after being on the antibiotic for 2 days the fever finally subsided.
Since he was getting sedated and had to be at the hospital anyway, they also did a pH Probe. The probe study was to measure the amount of reflux he was having. The results of the pH probe was very surprising. In 24 hours he had 126 episodes of level 3 reflux. Level 3 is the worst level of reflux anyone can have. The episodes lasted an average of 7.5 minutes, the smallest one lasting just over 5 minutes. From these results they determined that in those 24 hours he refluxed at least 15-18 hours.
Late that evening, Garak began to have a very high fever of 103°. They continued to give him meds to get the fever down, but it didn't seem like the meds were helping. They let Garak go home the following evening thinking the fever was not due to the scope, but perhaps his reaction to Aesthetics and morphine. They sent us home telling us to continue a Motrin/Tylenol regimen. He continued the fever for 7 days at which time they put him on Azithromycin, which is an antibiotic. They were pretty sure he had pneumonia due to the bronchoscopy. On June 5, after being on the antibiotic for 2 days the fever finally subsided.
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