Paramedics treat patient with prolonged seizure, Fort Worth TX
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, paramedics from Fort Worth responded near Pennsylvania Avenue for a medical emergency involving a man experiencing prolonged seizures. The patient, identified only as a 25-year-old male, was found unresponsive by a bystander. Emergency personnel administered multiple medications, provided ventilation support, and transported him to Harris Fort Worth Hospital for further care.
Audio|Heard on: Tarrant TX Hospital Group Calls
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Transcript:
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Harris Fort Worth Medic 28, priority three traffic.
00:04
This is Harris, go ahead.
00:07
Good evening, Harris.
00:08
This is Fort Worth Medic 28 with Paramedic Carter.
00:11
We're bringing in a 25-year-old male status seizure.
00:15
He has a history seizure, takes Keppra.
00:18
(name withheld) found him down in the bathroom.
00:20
Active seizure with cyanosis.
00:23
He was seizing for the entire duration of our response, so about 10 to 15 minutes.
00:27
Fifteen minutes prior to our arrival, we gave a total of twenty-five milligrams of Versed and was unable to break the seizure.
00:35
We've currently given ketamine and have him intubated and on a ventilator.
00:39
Current set of vital signs—I have a heart rate of 122, 130 over sixty-eight on applied pressure.
00:46
He's being vented at 15 times a minute, ninety-eight percent, and an end tidal of forty-two.
00:53
We do have bilateral IV access.
00:54
We've given.
00:56
Four hundred of ketamine and 150 of rock for induction.
01:01
He's currently on a ketamine infusion.
01:04
We were running a levofed drip for a few minutes, but we have since stopped that.
01:08
He was also showing peak T waves and signs of hyperkalemia on twelve lead.
01:12
So we did give 1 gram of calcium and an amp of bicarb.
01:17
Current GCS is three.
01:19
We're going to be there in about eight to 10 minutes.
01:22
Any questions or anything else we can get you at this time?
01:26
Does the patient have any signs or symptoms of any trauma?
01:31
Negative, bystander was able to keep him pretty protected in the bathroom.
01:37
Copy that, nothing further.
01:38
We'll see an arrival here is clear.
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Pennsylvania Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76104
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