Elderly woman with pneumonia taken to hospital, San Diego CA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, an 85-year-old woman at a private residence in La Jolla experienced severe shortness of breath and respiratory distress. Paramedics found her with signs of pneumonia, possible sepsis, and high blood glucose. She was treated with oxygen support and transported to Scripps Chula Vista Hospital.
Audio|Heard on: San Diego CA Hospital Group Calls
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Transcript:
00:00
All right, it's going to be for an 85-year-old female.
00:02
She complains today is going to be shortness of breath presenting with respiratory distress and bronchospasms.
00:07
We were called out to a private residence area for this patient as far as possible.
00:11
When she greeted us, she was heavily labored breathing, difficulty speaking between breaths.
00:16
She states that she's been short of breath with a cough for the past three days.
00:20
Was seen today at Kaiser Urgent Care and Palm Avenue and Dennery Road where she was reported to have possible pneumonia.
00:27
Was sent home as she was home, her shortness of breath just extremely got worse and worse and worse.
00:33
Sounds like no history of asthma or COPD,
00:36
just a diagnosis of pneumonia and does have history of diabetes.
00:40
Her neighbor activated 911 for her after she had called for some help.
00:44
And upon we arrived on scene, patient was attempting to ambulate towards us with a labor breathing at a rate of about thirty-six times a minute with an O two sat of eighty-eight percent on room air and an N tidal of forty-six with obvious shark fin waveform.
00:56
We had inspiratory and expiratory wheezing bilaterally and off field.
01:01
She was having a very difficult time speaking between breaths.
01:04
She's been A no time C for me moving our tremors appropriately.
01:06
Sinus attack at a rate of one.
01:08
112 with an initial blood pressure of 119 over 70.
01:11
Temp and temperature came back at 988.
01:14
She does have a blood glucose of 400,
01:17
and she's been sinus rhythm at a rate of 94.
01:21
Oh sorry, at a rate of 112.
01:23
Confirmed by totally, she does have frequent multifocal PACs.
01:29
However besides that I went ahead and treated her with CPAP albuterol attribute.
01:34
She's now stating at about 90%.
01:36
Seven percent.
01:37
She still does have some labored breathing at a rate of about twenty-eight times a minute.
01:40
She also has an 18 gauge on the right forearm, and she's got a total of 500 normal saline on board for possible sepsis as well.
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Location mentioned:
Palm Ave, San Diego, CA 92154
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