Elderly man with breathing issues taken to hospital, Escondido CA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical personnel transported a 69-year-old man with a history of COPD from a nursing facility to Palomar Hospital due to low oxygen levels. The patient received oxygen therapy and a breathing treatment en route.
Audio|Heard on: San Diego CA Hospital Group Calls
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01:22
Transcript:
00:00
Palomar 1-3-1, I went ahead and uploaded the run to you for unit 348.
00:04
It's going to be for a 69-year-old male.
00:07
Chief complaint, low oxygen saturation.
00:10
We're going to pull over your guys' back door here in about three minutes.
00:16
Copy that. Go ahead with that quick report.
00:20
Quick four, it sounds like staff members here were just doing their quick rounds on the patient at the nursing facility where this patient currently resides.
00:30
They were monitoring his vital signs and found his oxygen saturation in the low 80s.
00:35
They gave him a breathing treatment due to his history of COPD and possible difficulty breathing at that moment.
00:45
Like you said, they went ahead and gave him a breathing treatment.
00:48
Patient here is breathing. Not currently complaining of any shortness of breath.
00:51
Does include lungs bilaterally.
00:55
The highest oxygen saturation for the patient was about ninety-two to ninety-three percent, but then it would dip back down.
01:03
We have the patient currently loaded up.
01:05
I am giving him four liters right now nasal cannula.
01:09
My oxygen saturation still is floating around ninety-two to ninety-three percent.
01:15
Vital signs can be uploaded as you see them.
01:17
I'm looking to establish IV access.
01:18
We'll be at his back door here in about three minutes.
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Location mentioned:
Citracado Parkwy, Escondido, CA 92029
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