Helicopter lands to transport critical patient
Medical EmergencyRadio call about an air ambulance landing to pick up a critically ill middle-aged man. He has a blood clot in his lungs after a gunshot wound and is intubated after surgery. The crew is given the landing zone location, nearby hazards, and told the patient will be flown to Yale South Pavilion.
Audio|Source: LIFE STAR Air Medical Service
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Transcript:
Three souls, one plus 40857. St. Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, Connecticut, 1125. LifeStar 1.4, St. Mary's Hospital, you are in negative town transportation. There is no LZ contact. The LZ is on the west side of the hospital, painted with a white cross. Be aware of vehicles in the area. There's an 8-foot chain-link fence, roughly 15 feet long in the southwest corner of the pad. 1-300-foot tower, 1 mile northeast, 161-foot tower, 1 mile to the south. There are low-level light poles in the parking lot, roughly 1-50 feet from the LZ. Your patient is a 40-year-old male, 92 kilos. Chief complaint is a saddle pulmonary embolism subsequent to a gunshot wound. He is intubated currently in the OR at St. Mary's. Nursing staff will meet you in the ED and bring you to them and you're going to South Pavilion 6-1 on arrival at Yale. I have nothing further.
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Location mentioned:
Near Franklin St, Waterbury, CT 06706
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