Patient exposed to acid in basement of university building, Ithaca NY
Medical EmergencyEmergency responders are treating a person exposed to acid in the basement bathroom of the old food science building at Cornell University. The person is rinsing off in a full-body shower due to multiple exposure sites, with active acid exposure seen on the right arm.
Audio|Source: Tompkins County Fire/EMS
02:17
Transcript:
00:00
Tompkins, 2420, can you have 963 come over to METB and talk to me and we're having some communication issues here?
00:06
Copy Tompkins, uh, 963.
00:09
I copy that direct, I'll switch over.
00:11
2420 from 963 on MedB.
00:13
963, 2420. Sorry about this.
00:14
I'm over on ES Chad.
00:15
We don't have any radio communication.
00:17
In the basement of the old food science building, we do you're right there off the loading dock.
00:21
Got the patient in the shower right now.
00:22
We're rinsing her entirely off due to multiple exposure sites on herself.
00:27
If you guys can bring bangs in.
00:29
If you have access, if not I'll have the sense of going to help let them in.
00:33
But we're in the bathroom, in the basement of the old food science building.
00:36
10-4, right off of where your Tahoe's are parked, correct?
00:40
That's correct.
00:41
You go in that brown, dark brown side building and made it right there.
00:46
10-4.
00:47
Cornell from Bangs 959.
00:50
Cornell 2420 on tour 959.
00:53
We need the stretcher patient ambulatory with our status.
00:57
This has definitely been exposed to the acid and is currently rinsing herself off in a full-body shower.
01:03
Looks like the only active site where we can see where she's ingested it is through the skin is on her right arm.
01:11
Her leg is pants were soaked, but we don't believe she's taken any there, but we're just, for precautionary purposes, we're rinsing her entirely off.
01:19
I'll be there, man.
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Ithaca, NY 14850
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