Dialysis patient bleeding controlled after needle change, Safety Harbor FL

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Rescue 49, Mease Countryside.

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Country Side, go ahead.

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Bringing you a (number withheld)-year-old male.

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She tried to change the needle out in her fistula.

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Initially, it was uncontrolled bleeding.

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It was spur now when we arrived on scene.

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She's currently a GCS 15, ALOC times four, a little diaphoretic but still fully with it.

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Her heart rate's 72, 99% on room air, 118 over.

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Sixty-eight, my pressure.

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We stopped the bleeding using the combat gauze, very tightly wrapped.

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We do still have EMS, so we're going to be there in like 5 min .

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We're coming to see.

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Dialysis patient bleeding controlled after needle change