Elderly woman with breathing issues at care home, La Mesa CA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency crews responded to an assisted living facility near Grossmont Center Drive for a 68-year-old woman experiencing wheezing, shortness of breath, and fever. She has a history of bronchitis and developmental delay. The patient was stable and received nebulizer treatment en route to the hospital.
Audio|Heard on: San Diego CA Hospital Group Calls
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03:7
Transcript:
00:00
Crews on medic four, how can I help?
00:03
Can I report with you just a second? Hey team, we're on upload of run (number withheld).
00:12
Female, suspicious breath.
00:15
On medic four, I got your call.
00:17
C sixty-eight-year-old female, vitals are in hand.
00:20
Go ahead and report it.
00:21
This is Rosemont Medical for you.
00:23
We have a six-year-old female,
00:25
Mild medical.
00:27
Today we arrived to an assisted living facility for patients with cognitive disabilities.
00:41
Showed up on scene to this female.
00:43
She was sitting down on the couch.
00:44
She had some bilateral issues and took care of them.
00:50
Skin tones were pink, warm, dry.
00:54
Can those lungs have a little bit of wheezing bilaterally and all?
00:57
And she has strong rapid pulse and hyperventilation.
01:01
Patient is at GCS 15 at this time, but she does have a developmental delay.
01:12
Hey, medic four, you're super muffled.
01:14
I can't tell if there's noise in the background.
01:15
Give us a switch radio.
01:18
I copy your radios right now.
01:21
Go ahead, medic four.
01:23
How do you copy me?
01:26
I copy all I got really early was sixty-eight-year-old female living facility developmentally delayed.
01:33
All right, copy.
01:34
Yeah, it sounds like we arrived on scene.
01:37
Sixty-year-old female, she was sitting on the couch.
01:40
She did have bilateral wheezes.
01:45
Started last night around 9:00 pm, continued through the night until they called 911 this morning.
01:53
She does have a history of this.
01:56
She does get some wheezes.
01:58
She has a history of bronchitis and usually treatments help, but none were given before transport.
02:07
Currently, she is alert with GCS 15.
02:10
Lungs have wheezes, but are clear with the treatment we're giving her.
02:15
Her skin is pink, warm, and dry, with a strong rapid pulse.
02:24
She is a little tachycardic.
02:26
She was a little tachypneic on scene as well, and she has a fever of 100.4.
02:36
IV and fluids withheld for now.
02:38
I think that would worsen her shortness of breath in the ambulance.
02:42
No further treatment for now.
02:48
As far as treatments, continuing current care.
02:51
It's making her symptoms a little better.
02:53
We'll arrive in about ten to fifteen minutes.
02:56
That's all I have unless you have other questions.
03:01
Okay, we'll see you when we get there.
03:02
Grossmont Medical, dispatch copy.
03:06
Copy that. Thanks very much.
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Location mentioned:
Grossmont Center Dr, La Mesa, CA 91942
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