Elderly woman transported for possible sepsis, Cambridge MA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical services transported an elderly female patient with possible sepsis and low blood pressure to Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. The patient showed altered mental status and signs of hypotension before being stabilized for transport.
Audio|Heard on: Middlesex MA Hospital Group Calls
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00:39
Transcript:
00:00
Good evening, Mount Auburn. This is (name withheld).
00:01
Our other subject is an eighty-three-year-old female.
00:03
It's going to be a test alert, sepsis alert, beat test alert.
00:06
Patient has slow decline in mental status today around 1 p.m.
00:09
and a desaturation.
00:11
We find our initial O2 stats about ninety-five percent on four liters, sinus tachycardia.
00:15
Initial pressure was in the sixties.
00:17
She received 20 micrograms of push dose epi.
00:19
We currently have her at .2 mpkg per minute of nor epi.
00:22
We got a recent blood pressure of 141 over 62.
00:27
(Name withheld) has a temperature of 90.
00:28
Ninety-nine point six, however, did receive Tylenol prior to our arrival.
00:32
She's alert to verbal.
00:33
Be there in about 5 minutes.
00:36
Any questions?
00:39
See you on arrival.
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Location mentioned:
Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138
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