Ambulance transports patient with respiratory issue, North Kansas City MO
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency responders from Kansas City Fire Department transported a 67-year-old male patient from a local nursing home to North Kansas City Hospital after he was found with low oxygen levels. The patient’s condition improved after receiving supplemental oxygen. He was later identified as having tested positive for COVID earlier that day.
Audio|Heard on: Clay MO Hospital Group Calls
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01:37
Transcript:
00:00
North Kansas City, KCFD with patient information.
00:04
Wait, isn't it northbound? Go ahead.
00:07
Hey, northbound, this is medic 515, KCFD en route to your facility with a sixty-seven-year-old male patient coming from Newmark Nursing Home.
00:16
Nurse stated patient was found this morning with oxygen saturation in the seventies.
00:26
He's not normally on oxygen.
00:27
Oxygen during the day; placed on nasal cannula, since then oxygen saturation in the nineties.
00:32
Currently on 10 liters non-rebreather at ninety-eight percent pulse oxygen saturation.
00:38
Blood pressure 110 over 70.
00:40
Patient alert and oriented times three.
00:41
They also said he was not alert, but he's been talking to us the whole time.
00:47
Pulse rates in the seventies.
00:49
Normal sinus on the monitor.
00:51
Respirations at 16 a minute.
00:52
Clear bilaterally.
00:54
Blood sugar 207.
00:55
He has diabetes.
00:57
We'll see you in about 5 minutes.
00:59
Any questions?
01:02
Did you get a room air reading?
01:06
No, he was on oxygen when we arrived.
01:10
Okay, thanks. We'll see you when you get here.
01:13
North Kansas City, this is 515 calling back.
01:17
Case 50.
01:19
Go ahead.
01:22
Yeah, I apologize.
01:25
This is 515 KCFD calling back.
01:27
I failed to mention the patient tested positive for COVID this morning, for your information.
01:35
Copy that. Thanks for the update.
01:36
On arrival.
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