• Considering the patient's large fluid resuscitation, large abdominal incision, peritonitis, and increasing core temperature, the medical staff elected to sedate and ventilate the patient overnight.
• On arrival to the Pediatric intensive care unit, the patient was placed on IV morphine infusion. Laboratory investigations included hematocrit 33%, venous pH 7.39, pCO₂ 46, base excess -0.2 and ionized calcium at low normal.

The patient was weaned and extubated the next day and was discharged from the hospital within seven days.