Medical transport for woman with respiratory distress, Shreveport LA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, at a residence near W Bert Kouns Industrial Loop in Shreveport, paramedics transported a 65-year-old woman to Willis Knighton South hospital after she coughed up bright red blood. She has a history of heart failure and chronic lung disease and is oxygen dependent. Her vital signs were stable during transport, and she appeared alert and comfortable on supplemental oxygen.
Audio|Heard on: Caddo LA Hospital Group Calls
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01:41
Transcript:
00:00
Good evening, this is Paramedic (name withheld).
00:02
I'm coming to you with a 65-year-old female coming from her residence.
00:07
Last seen at your facility approximately about two weeks ago.
00:10
She had an episode of coughing up bright red blood.
00:16
She was sent to get some catheterization done apparently to an artery.
00:21
I'm not quite sure.
00:22
She's about four stories up.
00:25
Episode of the same thing happened this evening or this morning.
00:30
She woke up from sleep, felt like she had something to throw up.
00:33
She started coughing up some bright red blood.
00:37
Not a whole lot, but looked like clots in it.
00:42
Constant, alert, and oriented times four.
00:44
GCS 15 at 249.
00:46
She's got a blood pressure of 158 over 82.
00:50
Pulse 70. Respiratory rate.
00:54
Rate is 24.
00:56
Lungs clear, but she's got CHF and COPD and is oxygen dependent.
01:03
She's got stridor and a little bit of rales, oxygen dependent.
01:09
She was eighty-eight percent on her home oxygen.
01:13
I've got her on my oxygen.
01:15
I have got her on between four and six liters.
01:18
Four liters a minute.
01:20
So she's at ninety-seven percent.
01:22
She seems fine. A lot more comfortable.
01:25
Got the PRN established in her left arm with one touch.
01:31
Not diabetic, only thing she doesn't have.
01:34
She'll show up at your facility in about five to eight minutes.
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Location mentioned:
W Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Shreveport, LA 71118
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