Thursday 3 May 2007

Marathon paediatrician effort

We spent well over an hour and a half with Raphael's paediatrician today and also spent some time with an intensive care consultant (intensivist) discussing Raphael's need for some intervention regarding his sleep apnoea.

After Raphael's simple sleep study, his ENT examined his adenoids and tonsils but didn't find that they were obstructive and therefore would be no benefit in having them removed. Because of this, the next step is to admit Raphael to hospital on Monday for some days for all of us to get used to operating a CPAP (Constant Positive Air Pressure) machine while he sleeps.

As usual with long consultations, I will need to go over the recording that we made to pull out all of the information and to make the list of topics covered.

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