Kim by the Numbers

The top number is her heart rate. It's high, but that's expected as her heart works to push out extra fluid and stabilize.

Next is her blood pressure. Kim generally has low BP so this number is where it should be.

The yellow number is Kim's pulmonary pressure. This works like blood pressure, but measures the pressure between your heart and lungs rather than your heart and the rest of your body. Kim's pressure was over 100, and look at it now!

The dark blue number is a biggie; that's her CVP (central Venus pressure) and it's down in the low single digits like yours and mine. If its above 12 you have PH. Kim's was well over 30!!

Next we have another very important number, Kim's oxygen saturation level. Before surgery Kim was in the low 90's and upper 80's. As I write this she's in the upper 90s, right where a healthy person should be!

The last number is her respiratory rate which doesn't really count right now because her ventilator is doing the work for her.