What is the prognosis for my 80-year-old mom who?

Question

suffered a heart attack today? She is an end stage renal patient who is recovering from 3 strokes and a hematoma from a fall. She was dehydrated, very thin with low blood pressure. She is on a respiratory right now. What can doctors do at this point?

Answer 1

My mother was a dialysis patient and has a heart attack. She actually had the attack first. She then had a lot of trouble recovering from this but she was a diabetic. She suffered broken hip and then had to have her legs removed and then passed away from multi-organ failure. Your mother may be fine. You need ot talk to her and tell her that you love her and she needs to get better and just hope that she has the strength to fight. I really do hope that she get better. I know what you are going through and I hope everything goes well.

Answer 2

Her doctor is the best one to give you a prognosis.  No one here can tell you anything reliable.  We are not there.

To be realistic you should not be very optimistic, considering all that she has been through, kidneys, stroke, etc. But you never know.  Some people are just fighters and just keep going.

Peace to you, your mom, and family.

I am an RN.  

Answer 3

Seems like a pretty glum situation.  

Judging from her strokes and now the heart attack, she is not a canidate for open-heart surgery to clear any clogged/blocked arteries or valves.  

When I was younger, my grandmother's artery that goes from the heart to the brain was 90% blocked.  Doctors said that they couldn't fix the problem with surgery, because she would surely die on the operating table.  They gave her 12 months to live.  She died 14 months later.  Blood thinners and coumadin can only do so much.

Do what the doctors tell you.  My hopes and prayers go out to your mother.  



God Bless.

Answer 4

The prognosis is difficult to judge.  She suffered a heart attack today, how bad was it?  Did they go in and do an angiolasty or surgery.  The hematoma I am not concerned about.  That is not a big deal.

They are going to have to get her medically stabilized before they can really do anything.  This means get her hydrated.  Get her blood pressure up.  Get her off the ventilator.