Heart Flutters

Open Question: He didn’t hear correctly?

October 22nd, 2008 | by admin | Open Question: Medical records-help! Femoral Pulses 2+/4 = B (with a circle around it)?
I’m looking through my son’s medical records. He has an extensive medical history. 2 open heart surgeries, ECMO (bypass, kinda) for a week and a half following one hour of rigorous rescucitation, etc. (There’s a lot more.)
I am trying to figure out what his medical records say from before he was misdiagnosed. There is a section on the “Well child exam” from his 1 month checkup that has the Physical Exam. It states Femoral pulses (I know what that means) but what does the 2+/4 mean? Is that good? Bad? Okay? Also, next to his lungs it says “CTA B (with a circle around it) c (with?) and then something illegible. Looks like gouing, but I can’t figure it out.
If she wrote CTA next to the lungs portion, that means that they should have done a closer exam of his lungs, right?
I’m confused, and don’t know if I should consult a lawyer or not. I appreciate any and all insight anyone can offer. Thank you so much.
BTW-I have met some other parents online with the same diagnosis, and the vast majority were diagnosed at or before birth. He has a very severe, rare heart defect that wasn’t caught until he was 2 months old. He had 6x the normal amount of blood in his lungs because of his heart and he didn’t have his first surgery until he was almost 4 months old. Do you think that by having surgery earlier, it would have prevented his lungs from getting so diseased, thus preventing many complications? Thank you again.

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:20:28 GMT

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