77-year-old man at nursing facility experiences dangerous heart arrhythmia

Heard on: Independence MO Centerpoint Med (Hospital)

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Centerpoint, new information.

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Center point, this is what I'm sending to paramedic router.

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We're about 7 min out to your facility.

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Emergency with a 77 year old male patient who's coming from a nursing facility.

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The nursing staff said he started feeling unwell this morning, started having a lot of shaking.

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They went to check him out.

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Whenever they were checking out, they noticed that his defibrillator went off.

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That patient did have a lot of pain with that.

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Whenever we arrived on scene, patient was extremely pale and diaphoretic.

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I did get a 12-lead EKG.

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It looks like it's showing a.

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AFIB RVR. He does have a history of AFIB, but he was about in the 160s initially.

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He did have a run of V-tach that I witnessed, and he did have two additional AFIBs from his defibrillator on scene.

2026-10-18 16:32 UTC

Medical Emergency

East 39th St S, Independence, MO 64057

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As discussed during the dispatch call, eMS responded to a nursing facility for a 77-year-old man who felt unwell and was shaking. Staff reported his implanted defibrillator fired, and on arrival he was pale and sweating. An EKG suggested atrial fibrillation with a rapid heart rate and a witnessed run of ventricular tachycardia, with additional defibrillator shocks delivered.