{"id":326,"date":"2008-02-14T14:26:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T19:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/02\/14\/ventilator-tube-intensive-care-unit\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T20:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T01:05:02","slug":"ventilator-tube-intensive-care-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/02\/14\/ventilator-tube-intensive-care-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Choice Question: Waking Up With The Vent Tube Still In Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heart Valve Surgery Pop Quiz Time!!!<\/p>\n<p>Complete the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Waking up in the intensive care unit after cardiac surgery with a ventilator tube still in your throat is&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A. &#8220;So much fun! I can&#8217;t wait to do it again!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>B. &#8220;Uncomfortable. Not being able to talk is somewhat dislocating.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>C. &#8220;The worst thing ever!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>D. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know! It was removed before I woke up.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41824\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/ventilator-tube-heart-surgery-icu.jpg\" alt=\"Ventilator Tube ICU\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; The answer is.. &#8220;E&#8221;&#8230; It depends!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Not to trick you (that was not one of the multiple choice answers above), but patients tend to have different responses to that question &#8211; although very few select answer &#8220;A&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Most patients dread waking up with a vent tube in after their heart valve repair or heart valve replacement surgery. Personally, I had NO CLUE that I would wake up with the ventilation tube stuck down my throat after my aortic valve replacement operation. To learn more about that procedure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/aortic-valve-replacement-surgery.php\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, that was a very dislocating experience. I could not talk. And, swallowing was a major challenge due to the vent tube and my dry, dry, dry, dry, dry, dry, dry mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of focusing on the discomfort of the situation, I did my best to enjoy the silence of being with my family. One-by-one, they entered my ICU room. First came my dad (Jerry), then my wife (Robyn), then Doug (my brother), Donna (my mom) and Monica (my sister).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/family.gif\" alt=\"Pick Family At Adam's Birthday Party\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" \/><br \/>\nPick Family Picture Taken<br \/>\nLast Week At My Birthday Party<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As you can read here, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/intensive-care-unit-ICU-waking-up-operation.php\">waking up in the intensive care unit after heart surgery<\/a> was a special time for me.<\/p>\n<p>Related Link:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/ventilator-tube-removal-operating-room\/\">Heart Surgery Innovation: Early Removal of Ventilator Tube After Cardiac Surgery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recovery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41825,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/41825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}