Man with LVAD suffers cardiac arrest during power change
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Montgomery County MD MCFR 7H3 CNSLT 2 (Hospital)
02:09
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Morning, Holy Cross.
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This is ambulance 700 and forty-two with an ALS upgrade.
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We're at your facility about an eight-minute ETA.
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Have on board a fifty-five-year-old male.
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It's going to be a priority one.
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When I call it,
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probably cardiac arrest with his LVAD.
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Of course, unresponsive.
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Still sending priority one.
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How do you copy so far?
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Coming to you.
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Evening patient is having on and off issues with his LVAD.
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It was functioning properly.
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We arrived under direction of his Washington Hospital Center in charge of his LVAD.
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He's switching it over to battery power to bring him in for observation.
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And the unit itself on and off battery power.
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Lost all function.
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Patient's over cardiac arrest, lasting about 5 min .
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On unplugging, unplugging everything, the wall power, multiple different batteries.
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We got the unit to start functioning again.
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Patient is now spontaneously breathing.
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We're still unresponsive with a GCS of three.
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Under direction of his doctors at Washington Hospital Center, we're bringing him to your closest facility.
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Stabilize him and facilitate any transport between centers.
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As I stated, he's still unresponsive with a GCS of three.
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The device seems to have power and is just flashing a low flow alarm.
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We got an end-tidal of 21.
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Do you have any further questions at the moment?
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10-21.
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I'm sorry, can you repeat?
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10-21.
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Well, being an LVAD, I have no pulse or blood pressure.
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I'm oversaturating at 99% on an end tidal of 23.
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Copy,
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I'm clear this channel.
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