Man with heart failure experiences severe breathing difficulty

Heard on: Powhatan County Fire & Rescue

02:26

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Box 0402 , breathing difficulty, priority one.

00:04

Medic 711 and EMS 704 at (number withheld) Woods Way.

00:10

Time out 1703 .

00:17

EMS 711, about 1704.

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EMS 704, you can disregard.

00:32

Powhatan EMS 704, you can disregard.

00:39

Powhatan EMS 711, you're responding for a 71-year-old male weighing 255 pounds.

00:50

Patient has a history of congestive heart failure and a pacemaker.

00:56

Patient is having trouble talking and swallowing.

01:00

Shortness of breath when he tries to talk.

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The cause is as he normally has shortness of breath, but this time it's worse.

01:10

The sudden onset.

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Was recently in the hospital for aggravation of heart failure.

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Needs a full of fluid.

01:29

Okay, EMS 704.

01:33

EMS 704,

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you

01:41

can disregard.

01:47

Thousand and 704 is A1.

01:50

1706.

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1707.

02:07

Powhatan, that's 711.

02:09

They're requesting rescue to come to the side of the road.

02:12

And passing, he would need a stretcher.

02:15

Normally sits in his wheelchair.

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711, could you ask if they can put him in the wheelchair and bring him out?

02:26

Simple.

9/3/2026 02:03 PM

Medical Emergency

Woods Way, State Farm, VA 23160

Man with heart failure experiences severe breathing difficulty

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