77-year-old man weak and short of breath after knee surgery

Heard on: Independence MO Centerpoint Med (Hospital)

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Centerpoint from CJC Med One patient information.

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Hey, center boy, this is CJ to medical on human action on emergency on board.

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I've got a seventy-seven-year-old male.

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Chief complaint today is going to be some kind of generalized weakness and a little bit of shortness of air.

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Patient has a history of carbon monoxide coming from a rehab center where he's being seen because of a recent knee surgery.

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Said that he was just feeling really shaky and weak, especially in his legs, and thought it was due to his oxygen levels.

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Dropping low, which is a normal problem for him.

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He takes oxygen PRN.

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When we initially got there, he was not on any oxygen at the time.

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His oxygen saturation was in the upper seventies.

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We've now got him on a few liters via nasal cannula.

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He's upper eighties, low nineties now, which is baseline for him.

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We got a heart rate of ninety-eight, sinus rhythm, told we was unremarkable for any estimation.

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One thirty-eight, one thirty-eight over seventy-nine BP, breathing twenty-two times a minute.

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We'll be there in about.

2026-10-25 05:24 UTC

Medical Emergency

East 39th St S, Independence, MO 64057

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As discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical crews reported a possible medical emergency involving a 77-year-old man from a rehab center with recent knee surgery. He was experiencing generalized weakness and shortness of breath, with oxygen levels initially low but improving to his reported baseline after receiving oxygen through a nasal cannula.