Elderly woman treated for low blood sugar, Charleston SC
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical responders transported a 64-year-old woman near Ashley Ave to MUSC Downtown Hospital in Charleston for suspected hypoglycemia. She experienced altered consciousness, nausea, and cold sweats. Her glucose levels fluctuated during transport, and treatment with glucose and intravenous dextrose improved her condition. She is undergoing cancer treatment and had stable vital signs upon arrival.
Audio|Heard on: Lexington SC Hospital Group Calls
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Transcript:
00:00
Ambulance en route to MUSC Downtown, Richland County.
00:03
Two hundred and forty-two.
00:08
Last unit, can you repeat who are you calling?
00:13
I am down. Go ahead, 200 and forty-two.
00:17
Unit 242 to MUSC Downtown, running routine to your facility.
00:20
Non-emergent with a sixty-four year old female patient who was found altered.
00:26
Her family said she was going in and out of consciousness prior to EMS arrival.
00:31
Patient hasn't been feeling well the past couple of days.
00:34
Has had some vomiting yesterday, some diarrhea yesterday, and today.
00:38
Said that she's been breaking out from cold sweats.
00:41
Her monitor read fifty-five, our glucose monitor read in the eighties.
00:47
She was acting more like her blood sugar was low.
00:49
We did give her some oral glucose.
00:50
She improved slightly.
00:52
She said she did feel a little better with that.
00:54
Still read fifty-six.
00:56
She said she took her insulin but only had some salsa this morning.
01:04
We did give her some D ten.
01:07
She said she felt much better with that.
01:09
Her glucose is reading sixty.
01:13
We rechecked ours and it was reading about two ninety.
01:17
She's constantly undergoing cancer treatment.
01:19
She said she feels better.
01:20
She is under cancer treatment.
01:23
She had a treatment a couple of weeks ago.
01:26
No other medical complaints.
01:28
Blood pressure is one fifty-seven over fifty-two.
01:30
Heart rate is ninety-three.
01:31
Monitor shows ninety-nine percent oxygen, breathing fourteen times a minute.
01:37
No other medical complaints, and we will arrive in about eight minutes. Temperature ninety-seven point six.
01:47
Nothing further.
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Location mentioned:
Ashley Ave, Charleston, SC 29425
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