Elderly woman with COPD suffers respiratory distress

Heard on: Brooke WV WesCom Med B (Hospital) Group Calls

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Dispatch, call next, Brookview Bravo.

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Go ahead.

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Truck number 702, cert (number withheld), on board 86, 86 year old female patient, respiratory distress.

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Patient suffers from COPD and wears two liters at night every night.

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She said last night.

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When she went to bed about 10:00 p.m.

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, she started having some trouble breathing.

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This morning wasn't feeling any better.

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First responders bumped her up to four on four liters.

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She's sat in the low nineties, about ninety-one.

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Patient denies any pain at this time.

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She's four, five, six.

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Respirations are 20 .

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Lungs were wheezing throughout.

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Monitor in twelve lead.

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She had a sinus rhythm in the eighties, eighty-two.

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Blood pressure 130 over seventy-two.

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I gave her a DuoNeb with the extra albuterol.

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She said it helped.

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She's still sitting in the low nineties though.

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Twenty-eight and left AC locked off, and we're transporting to (number withheld).

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ETA is going to be about 7 min .

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Copy your number for me is (number withheld) .

7/29/2026 09:08 AM

Medical Emergency

West Dr, Bethany, WV 26032

Elderly woman with COPD suffers respiratory distress

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