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Did they say it was a blood thinner? vs. lowering the blood pressure in her pulmonary arteries in conjunction w/ heparin as the blood thinner?

• SEJeff 4y ago
  It was in fact both. She was born with a diaphragmatic hernia if you’re medically inclined. Her left lung was 23% the size it needed to be so she had severe pulmonary hypertension. Post surgery to fix it, her heart basically gave out and her vitals took a dive. ECMO for eleven days gave her enough time to grow enough to figure it out. It was a blood thinner to keep the blood from clotting in the ECMO circuit, but also helped with her rather severe pulmonary hypertension. She was intubated approximately ten second after I cut the umbilical chord and stayed that way for three months. A diaphragmatic hernia is no joke man!