Fire crew transports patient with breathing distress, Detroit MI
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, detroit Fire emergency medical personnel transported a 63-year-old woman experiencing breathing difficulties, likely related to COPD and possible bronchitis or influenza, to Henry Ford Hospital under Priority One status. The patient received albuterol and CPAP en route, showing improvement before arrival.
Audio|Heard on: Wayne MI Hospital Group Calls
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02:30
Transcript:
00:00
Fire Main, Detroit Fire Bravo One Hundred and Nine, Priority One Adult Medical.
00:03
How do you copy?
00:06
This is Henry Ford Hospital.
00:07
We talked about here.
00:08
Go ahead.
00:10
Good morning, Henry Ford Hospital.
00:11
Detroit Fire Bravo One Thousand and Nine, One Hundred and Nine.
00:14
I am currently about your facility, Priority One Medical.
00:16
I have with me today a sixty-three-year-old female.
00:19
She is complaining of difficulty in breathing.
00:22
The patient is a COPD patient.
00:24
She is also a heart patient.
00:26
She was recently on a life vest.
00:27
But was taken off.
00:29
She said the doctors took her off it two months ago, but there was not much follow-up.
00:39
There are flu-like symptoms among other family members in the house.
00:42
I'm suspecting influenza or bronchitis.
00:48
She has been fatigued and complaining of general malaise.
00:56
She also has a productive cough.
01:01
When I got to her, she was breathing thirty-six times a minute.
01:07
She had oxygen saturation of ninety-five percent but was working hard to breathe.
01:12
I've given her 2.5 milligrams of albuterol.
01:16
She did not improve with albuterol and non-rebreather, so I have her on CPAP.
01:21
She's doing much better.
01:22
She's at ninety-nine percent oxygen.
01:23
Her respiratory rate is twenty-four.
01:28
Her blood pressure is 146 over 104.
01:33
Heart rate is 149.
01:38
I performed a twelve-lead ECG and transmitted it to you.
01:44
Probable ventricular tachycardia noted.
01:49
Left axis deviation observed.
01:55
Possible anterior infarct.
01:59
I transmitted the heart rate and ECG data again.
02:07
Her respiratory rate remains twenty-four.
02:08
She is on CPAP and oxygen at ninety-nine percent.
02:14
Her GCS is 15.
02:19
I will see you in the next five minutes.
02:23
Copy that. We'll see you in room two.
02:28
We copy room two.
02:29
We'll see you when we get there.
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Location mentioned:
W Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 48202
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