Elderly man transferred for neurological care with spinal injury, Royal Oak MI
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, an 89-year-old man with a neck fracture, low blood pressure, and confusion was transferred from Lake Huron Medical Center to Beaumont Royal Oak for neurological care. He was monitored continuously during transport, with manual spinal support due to collar fitting issues.
Audio|Heard on: Macomb MI Hospital Group Calls
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01:45
Transcript:
00:00
This is Tri Hospital Alpha One.
00:01
Priority two traffic coming with a transfer from Lake Huron Medical Center looking to get a radio report.
00:08
Royal Oak Beaumont, go ahead with priority.
00:10
Good evening.
00:11
This is Tri Hospital Alpha One.
00:13
Advice to East Priority Two, Priority Two with an eighty-nine year old male coming today from Lake Huron Medical Center for a transfer for neurological services.
00:22
Patient coming to you with a C six, C seven fracture.
00:25
Patient alert oriented the baseline of AMO about three to fours with some thoughts of confusion.
00:33
Time used ninety-seven percent on three liters of O two.
00:37
Is hypotensive right now with a blood pressure of ninety-one over forty-five, nine over forty-five.
00:43
I do have fluid running at time to kind of help with the hypotension.
00:49
Staff at Lake Huron Medical Center states that his blood pressures have been hypotensive all day.
00:54
At this time, I am holding manual C spine inadvertently throughout the transport due to the patient not fitting an adult C collar and not fitting a pediatric C collar.
01:05
We do have.
01:10
With your time, brother, I'm going to get you some logs for transport.
01:13
We have decaged your facility of about 10 to 15 minutes.
01:17
Sorry, you cut out for a 2nd there after you said you were holding T-spine?
01:23
We did not have a T-collar big enough.
01:27
Oh, sorry. Our adult T-collars were too big on the patient and our pediatric T-collars were too small for the patient.
01:34
So I do just have to hold T-spine to protect.
01:37
Unless you require anything further, we have an ETA of about 10 to 15 minutes.
01:41
I'm going to continue to monitor throughout the transport unless you require anything further.
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Location mentioned:
W 13 Mile Rd, Royal Oak, MI 48073
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