Medical flight transports woman with heart block in Fort Madison, Fort Madison IA

Medical Emergency

Reported: 11/7/2025 01:42 PM

Fort Madison, IA

A woman in Fort Madison is being transported by medical flight due to a third-degree heart block. She is stable, conscious, and has low blood pressure and heart rate. Medical teams are coordinating her transfer for treatment.

Audio|Source: Lee County Public Safety

02:54

Transcript:

00:00

MedForce 2, go for Lee County Ambulance.

00:08

We're just looking for a patient update on the space we're coming down for it.

00:21

This is Adam 106.

00:29

Adam 106, this is Medforce 2.

00:31

We're showing 6 minutes in route to the Fort Madison pad looking for some patient update.

00:35

The patient is stable, she's conscious alert and oriented.

00:44

She's 95% on room air.

00:47

I got a third-degree heart block.

00:51

She was called by...

00:57

We're on a life vest.

00:58

She got a call by the university.

01:00

She said she needed to get up there.

01:02

They said that she had a complete heart block.

01:05

Heart rate right now is 41.

01:08

Like I said, she's completely conscious of her annoying.

01:12

Last blood pressure I got on her was 85 over 38.

01:15

I'm going to give her an adjuprane and see how that helps with her blood pressure.

01:26

I'll just take two minutes away from the pad.

01:32

That's a good copy on the report.

01:34

We're five minutes from the pad.

01:35

We'll see you down on the ground shortly.

01:56

Lee County 107 from MedForce 2 can you give me a proximate patient wait please.

02:09

Report 2 from 106 patient wait is 24 as of this warning she says.

02:22

106, that's a good copy.

02:23

We'll just utilize your cop on the pad and slider up through the back to the helicopter onto our cot.

02:29

We'll see you soon.

02:30

We're on final now.

02:51

At 61551.

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