Maggie Rudy Sunday

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June 17, 2018 - Father's Day

Maggie remains at UM Trauma Center in Baltimore, and she is slowly being brought back to normal body temperature.  She was put into a cold state ("therapeutic hypothermia") for 24 hours to protect her brain and to assess and normalize many markers (blood oxygen, electrolyte balance, etc).  In effect, she is in a medically induced coma.

The journey back to normal body temperature will take approximately 30 hours starting at 5:30 PM this evening.  This morning's meeting with the neurologist was hopeful - I think all of us expect that we'll be talking with Maggie soon - but there is still a long way to go to get through their very detailed process.  The re-warming process will increase her body temp one tenth of one degree C every hour.  There are changes in vital signs that occur with re-warming, and slower is better.

Note here: the UM Shock Trauma unit and the Neurology ICU are fantastic.  They are the gold standard!

So we are waiting.  Thank you for your prayers, prayers, and more prayers!  There is no timeline, but we expect that she would exhibit some responsiveness prior to midnight Monday evening when the rewarming process is complete.  Perhaps later depending on the dosing of medications.

We will update as more information is available, and I'll provide information from the beginning for background information. As always, if there are items that need correction please let me know.