Medical helicopter transfers patient with heart attack and brain bleed, Cooperstown NY
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A medical helicopter transferred a 220-pound male patient from Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester due to a heart attack and brain bleeding. Another helicopter was unable to assist because of fuel and weather limitations.
Audio|Heard on: Tri-County Public Safety
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Transcript:
00:00
7-8, standby for tones.
00:13
LifeNet 7A, inner hospital response, picking up at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York, dropping off at Strong Memorial in Rochester, New York.
00:23
Patient is 220 pounds, no specials, heading of 56 degrees by 32 nautical miles.
00:30
Be advised, LifeNet 72 had to decline due to being in a spare aircraft and not having enough fuel capacity to make the whole trip without stopping for fuel and the cold weather being too much.
00:46
Pending your weather, 2223.
00:54
Standing by 2223.
00:57
Standing by, 2223.
01:12
One point.
01:15
Star Nets available toll for four dollars a day.
01:19
Disabled on the inside of the road.
01:21
I-81 north and here on my home market area.
01:30
7.8 have you accepting at 2225.
01:35
Be advised.
01:36
This is for male 220 pounds.
01:39
Diagnosis of heart attack and brain bleeding, no IVs, picking up at Bassett Hospital ER1, dropping off at Strong Memorial ER.
02:00
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