Elderly man in respiratory distress taken to hospital, Wilmington DE
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical services transported an 87-year-old man experiencing severe aspiration and respiratory distress to Wilmington Hospital. The patient had a history of pneumonia and was in critical condition during transport.
Audio|Heard on: New Castle DE Hospital Group Calls
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01:19
Transcript:
00:00
Going to base 20, unit 83-21-10 inbound, Priority 1C, eighty-seven-year-old male, suspected severe aspiration.
00:07
Any hot cops so far?
00:09
How's the hospital there? Go ahead.
00:13
Apparently, a pretty bad history of pneumonia.
00:16
Half down, being in severe respiratory distress.
00:19
We had a bronchi.
00:21
Inflammatory was going from across the room when we got to him.
00:25
Pretty much bronchiever.
00:29
On high flow oxygen, this is still hovering around 80 percent.
00:33
We have more than one hundred and twenty-five that drop on board.
00:38
We've cleared a lot of our guy out, but he's still sitting at eighty-seven percent.
00:41
Already in the 130s.
00:43
Going to need in-room and respiratory, ETA probably about eight to ten minutes.
00:51
Copy. Is the, um,
00:55
What's the patient's vital? His blood pressure, heart rate?
01:00
Again, on our CPAP he's at 8 percent and his heart rate is 134.
01:06
We got a good trauma angle so we're going to low pressure now.
01:10
Dispatch number (number withheld), you will go to room five on arrival.
01:16
Copy, room (number withheld), see when we get there.
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Location mentioned:
W 14th St, Wilmington, DE 19801
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