Four-year-old with foot swelling taken to hospital, Elizabeth City NC
Medical EmergencyEmergency medical personnel transported a four-year-old female with worsening foot swelling and bleeding to Hamilton Hospital for evaluation. The patient has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and low oxygen levels, receiving supplemental oxygen during transport.
Audio|Source: Pasquotank and Camden County Police, Fire and EMS - Analog
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Albemarle Hospital, Medical Fire, patient information.
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Have her mom be advised run for out to your location with 84 that's a four-year-old female patient patient got up this morning and she has edema, has noticed edema for the last several days but it had gotten worse overnight and then the bottom of her foot she either started
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got scratched on something going from her bed to her bathroom,
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but it was bleeding when we got there and it's somewhat stopped now.
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Patient is being brought to your facility for evaluation.
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She was supposed to have a doctor's appointment with Dr.
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White this afternoon, it's cardiologist.
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Patient's blood pressure at this time is 154 over 91, 154 over 91.
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Pulse of 72.
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We have on three liters of oxygen by nasal cannula.
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She does have COPD,
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and her oxygen saturation is hanging around 75 to 84.
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I'm getting ready to increase it one more, and it's simply to come up just a little.
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Patient is working away in at this time.
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You do. You'll still be about five minutes to require him on.
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Halstead Blvd, Elizabeth City, NC 27909
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