Patient with heart condition flown to hospital by helicopter, Charlottesville VA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, a 70-year-old male with a heart condition is being flown by air medical helicopter to the hospital. He experienced repeated episodes of rapid heart rate and received multiple shocks from his implanted cardiac defibrillator to restore normal heart rhythm.
Audio|Heard on: UVA Helicopter Dispatch
Listen to dispatch call
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Transcript:
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Check out, we're about 12 minutes from the rooftop, one two minutes in the rooftop with a 70-year-old male patient, extensive cardiac history, including an implanted cardiac defibrillator.
00:08
He has been shocked a total of 22, that is 2-2 times, over the course of the last hour, having multiple runs of ventricular tachycardia, until the device goes off and shocks him back to normal sinus rhythm.
00:18
His vital signs are he is not in VTAC, or it follows, heart rate 91, normal sinus, blood pressure 139 over 72.
00:25
94% on 3 liters by nasal cannula, the respiratory rate in the 20th.
00:29
The patient is alert and oriented at baseline mental status.
00:33
And again, it's just a continuous ventricular tachycardia, followed by shocks from the ICD.
00:37
These receipts total of 300 of amiodarone at this time.
00:40
We also have fluids running.
00:41
And again, we're about 12 minutes from the rooftop.
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Location mentioned:
Lee St, Charlottesville, VA 22908
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