Aeromed transports elderly male with gastrointestinal bleed, Traverse City MI
Medical EmergencyAn 83-year-old male patient with a gastrointestinal bleed and low blood pressure is being transported by Aeromed to Munson hospital. The patient is stable and alert but requires immediate medical care due to blood loss and low blood pressure.
Audio|Source: Traverse Bay Area Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Good evening, Munson. This is North Floyd Aeromed. I'm currently en route to your facility with an approximate 10-minute ETA. On board, we have an incoming transfer patient from Sheboygan, 83-year-old male GI bleed.
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Are you familiar with this patient?
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I'm familiar with the report.
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I don't know the details.
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Copy that. Starting around 9.30 this morning, having acute,
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bloody stools, frank red blood, T.C.
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confirmed. in the proximal descending colon,
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had a two-point drop in hemoglobin while he was in Chiboygan, received two units of blood there.
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Blood pressure stabilized en route to your facility. Blood pressure is dropped from about 120s to high 80s, so he has just received a unit of plasma from us.
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And blood pressure increased to systolic of 90, and we're working on a second unit of blood.
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The patient is acutely alert, GCS 15. A&O times four.
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No complaints except for some minor nausea, which he's received Zopran for.
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The remainder of his vital signs, we have an aphib rhythm between 100 and 120, 96% on room air. And again, that last blood pressure was 92 over 64.
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That last blood pressure was 92 over 64.
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Again, 10 minutes out, months.
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Copy that. We'll see you about 10.
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Months, clear.
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Traverse City, MI
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