Medical team assists patient with chest pain near Escondido, Escondido CA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, medical responders transported an elderly female experiencing significant chest pain to Palomar Medical Center West in Escondido. The patient reported sharp bilateral chest pain lasting about a day, described as an eight on the pain scale. Vitals indicated sinus tachycardia and stable oxygen levels. Treatment included aspirin and nitroglycerin with limited effect. The condition appeared consistent with pleuritic pain, and no trauma or prior medical issues were noted.
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02:45
Transcript:
00:00
Sharp Medic 40.
00:02
Medic 40, this is Sharp.
00:04
Sharp Medic 40, we have a run number (number withheld) for 79-year-old female, chief complaint is going to be chest pain.
00:16
Going to Palomar Medical Center West with a two-minute ETA.
00:23
Break.
00:24
So Palomar Medical Center West, not Palomar Highway.
00:28
Sorry, we don't really familiar.
00:30
We don't run calls that often for this area, but Palomar.
00:35
Palomar Escondido, and then again your unit number is Medic Forty.
00:38
That's affirmative.
00:40
So it sounds like the patient's been experiencing on and off chest pain for the last 24 hours, described as a sharp pain bilateral diffuse on both sides of her chest.
00:57
Eight out of ten on the pain scale with an increase of pain on inspiration and palpation.
01:05
Break.
01:08
Heart rate is 100, sinus tachycardia as confirmed via 12 lead EKG non-stemi.
01:17
Blood pressure initial was 126 over 65.
01:23
A repeat blood pressure after one nitroglycerin sublingual is ninety-five over sixty-one.
01:29
She's breathing at 20 times a minute, full and effective clear lung sounds in all fields.
01:33
Ninety-six percent in room air.
01:36
Ninety-seven point six on the tympanic temperature.
01:40
GCS 15, alert oriented times four.
01:43
Break.
01:45
Patient has no significant medical history, allergies, or medications.
01:51
On a secondary, she's negative for any outward signs of trauma.
01:54
Able to reproduce the pain with any movement or inspiration.
02:04
I've established a 20 gauge in her left wrist.
02:06
I've administered 324 milligrams aspirin orally and 0.4 milligrams nitroglycerin.
02:14
Sublingual nitroglycerin, and it doesn't seem to have reduced the pain.
02:22
It sounded like this may actually be a pleuritic type pain.
02:28
We'll be getting to Palomar in about just a couple minutes.
02:32
Do you have any questions?
02:33
No, I copy.
02:34
That's good.
02:35
I'll let Palomar know that she will arrive shortly.
02:40
She can recontact otherwise.
02:42
They're open.
02:43
Great. Thank you so much for taking the call.
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Citracado Parkwy, Escondido, CA 92029
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