Elderly woman taken to hospital for chest pain, Escondido CA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical services transported an 86-year-old woman from a private residence near Citracado Parkway in Escondido, California, to Palomar Hospital for evaluation and treatment of chest pain and high blood pressure.
Audio|Heard on: San Diego CA Hospital Group Calls
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02:27
Transcript:
00:00
Palomar R A 131, bringing you a medical.
00:02
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00:06
131, this is Palomar, go ahead.
00:10
Thank you, box 404733.
00:13
It's going to be for an 86-year-old female.
00:16
Chief complaint today are going to be of chest pain slash pressure as well as hypertensive.
00:22
So we'll call that to a private residence for a patient.
00:27
Started experiencing some chest pressure-like pain here in 40 minutes to an hour.
00:31
Yesterday she was seen there at the hospital for high blood pressure issues.
00:36
She's normally just on Losartan, which is a 25 milligram dose, was told to increase her dose of.
00:44
Yeah, so before she was on the twenty-five milligram dose, was told to increase to 50 milligrams and then was prescribed metoprolol to take once in the morning.
00:59
When she arrived home, she took the 15 mg of Losartan, tried to go to bed, was woken up with chest pressure and pain.
01:08
She checked her own blood pressure, found it was elevated at home by on the 200.
01:13
She went ahead and took another 50 milligrams of Losartan about 2 a.m., tried to go back to sleep, woke up again now feeling that chest pressure was about a seven to eight out of ten on the right side, right anterior portion of her chest not radiating.
01:28
She's one hundred and forty-four.
01:29
She shifts at fifteen.
01:30
Contents are normal pupils of pearl, and about sixteen to eighteen pounds of phone effect with lung sounds.
01:34
Still having that right anterior pain that is non-radiating.
01:37
About again seven to eight edits.
01:41
Test her blood pressure.
01:42
Blood pressure still about two hundred over eighty.
01:44
Did twelve. We came back almost sinus at seventy.
01:46
Satting at ninety-eight percent on room air.
01:48
We have a major history of hypertension as well.
01:52
She had just had cataract surgery about a week ago.
01:54
That being said, she's been taking the new medication or was just waiting to take the new medication until morning, but she has been about one hundred fifty milligrams total of Losartan.
02:06
Excuse me, just one hundred of Losartan.
02:09
Oh, she's been given three hundred and twenty-four aspirin as well as around a nitroglycerine.
02:15
Updated blood pressure is still in the one eighties over eighty right now.
02:19
Outside of that, just keep in position and comfort.
02:20
We had just pulled into your back door now.
02:25
Copy that. Let's see you.
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Location mentioned:
Citracado Parkwy, Escondido, CA 92029
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