Patient transferred for respiratory failure, Huntsville AL
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical personnel are transporting a 68-year-old female patient experiencing respiratory failure from Fayette Medical Center to Crestwood Hospital in Huntsville, Alabama. The patient, who was admitted days earlier with flu symptoms, is intubated, sedated, and on a mechanical ventilator for blood pressure control. Current vital signs are stable during transit.
Audio|Heard on: Marion County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Crestwood Hospital is very much four or five.
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We're en route with a transfer patient coming to your facility, coming from Fayette Medical Center in Fayette.
00:07
Says it's a sixty-eight year old female patient complaining of fluid symptoms with respiratory failure.
00:14
Patient was admitted a couple days ago with flu and this morning she turned down fuel on heating her up so we could move around.
00:21
She's currently intubated, sedated.
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On two sedation medications and on norepine for blood pressure control.
00:32
Currently she is resting comfortably, eyes closed.
00:37
She won't move around, she'll have her own gag reflex.
00:40
Able to control most everything else on her own at this point.
00:44
She's on a mechanical ventilator.
00:47
Current vital signs are as follows.
00:48
Heart rate is 84, 84 showing in sinus rhythm on the monitor.
00:52
Blood pressure. Pressure is 121 over 71.
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121 over 71, rest break, 3rd 20.
00:58
Congestion and rails in all areas,
01:02
but it is equal.
01:05
And end-tidal CO2 is 46.
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46, O2 sat running 93 to 98 on FIO2 of 40%.
01:12
Currently we have about a 32, 32 minute ETA.
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Location mentioned:
Hospital Drive Southwest, Huntsville, AL 35801
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