Elderly man treated for sudden breathing difficulty at home, Oceanside CA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, an 83-year-old man at a private home experienced sudden shortness of breath possibly from inhaling food. EMS treated him with oxygen and nitroglycerin due to high blood pressure and breathing issues. He is stable and on the way to the hospital.
Audio|Heard on: San Diego CA Hospital Group Calls
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Transcript:
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Tri-City, R8213.
00:03
Give you a CAD number here as (number withheld).
00:08
That's (number withheld).
00:11
Chief complaint today is going to be short of breath.
00:13
Let me know you're ready to the full report.
00:16
(Name withheld) said 9-1, 9-1 on the age?
00:21
It's going to be 83-year-old male.
00:25
Sorry, go ahead.
00:26
Sorry, go ahead.
00:28
Thanks, Tri-City. Called out to a private resident state to find that 83-year-old male sitting upright, hearing mild distress with shortness of breath.
00:34
Story goes that while he was sleeping next to his wife, he was woken up from his sleep where he had an acute onset of some shortness of breath.
00:41
A patient believes that he might have aspirated some of his food.
00:45
Do you have rails and crackles throughout.
00:47
It does also note that his feet are a little more swollen and bellies attended more than usual.
00:53
No past history of CHF,
00:55
but we are seeing him.
00:57
signs of that right now.
00:59
For us, he is alert and oriented.
01:00
He's able to speak in pulling complete sentences.
01:03
No obvious airway restriction that we can see.
01:08
On a brim right now, he breathes at 20 times a minute,
01:12
satin at 92% on room air.
01:13
We did get them on 4 liters, we have them up to 95% with that nasal cannula in place.
01:19
He's learned to these answer our questions pro quo high as pro 3 millimeters.
01:22
He has the ability to move all 4, under our depth, it's noted.
01:25
I do have a heart rate as 86.
01:28
That is a picture of them on the monitor.
01:29
I have a blood pressure of 202 over 80.
01:31
That's 202 over 80.
01:33
That's in panic temperature of 98.6.
01:36
for an ongoing treatment in that no known drug allergies right now we have on those four liters of oxygen additionally with the crackles and rail sounds that we had with
01:51
the hypertensive and dysolidylidema, went ahead and it's administered 0.4 milligrams of nitro sublingual.
01:57
Patient does state that his respiratory rate has greatly improved and feels that the word of breathing is much easier as well.
02:04
We're able to establish IV access and we have about a five-minute ETA.
02:07
So anything else I can get you?
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Location mentioned:
Vista Way, Oceanside, CA 92056
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