Medical emergency for male patient with breathing difficulty, Waterloo IA
Medical EmergencyMedical responders are transporting an obese male patient with heart and lung conditions who has severe breathing difficulty and leg weakness. He was found in his basement unable to stand. Oxygen treatment is ongoing, and he is alert.
Audio|Source: Waterloo-Cedar Falls Public Safety
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Transcript:
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In route to Mercy 1, beginning mileage, 0.7.
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104[2]0[1]. 348, 242.
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3.48, 42, 16, 37, 27.
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Law enforcement arrived on scene prior to our arrival, found the patient downstairs in his basement, having difficulty breathing.
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He does have congestive heart failure, also chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Patient is obese.
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He also was complaining that he had gotten himself down into the basement yesterday and went to stand up today and has no muscle and weakness in his legs at all.
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Unable to stand up, put any weight on him.
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Right now, we've got him as comfortably as possible on the cot.
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He is currently alert to verbal stimuli.
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I have a pulse rate of 118, it's been regular.
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Trying to get a blood pressure on him right now.
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Initially, we had him on 10 liters oxygen by a simple mask at 97%.
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However, getting him up the stairs and onto the cot, the tubing from the mask is tangled underneath.
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So I switched to a non-rebreather at 10 liters.
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And he was just that in 94%.
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No other interventions have been performed at this time and we're just pulling in.
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We're going to be pulling into your garage in about a minute.
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Do you request anything further?
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
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1040: Arrival at hospital
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104: Room on arrival
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Waterloo, IA
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