Emergency transport of elderly man for breathing difficulty, Arlington TX
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Medical EmergencyAccording to the dispatch call, an 84-year-old man from a nursing home with respiratory failure was transported to Medical City Arlington. He had pneumonia recently and was receiving oxygen therapy due to breathing difficulties.
Audio|Heard on: Tarrant TX Hospital Group Calls
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21. We are bringing you an 84-year-old male coming from a nursing home with chief complaint of acute respiratory failure.
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We arrived on scene.
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Nurse on scene advised that the patient was recently discharged from the hospital about a week ago and was diagnosed with pneumonia.
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He was actually getting an x-ray of his chest today.
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They noticed that he seemed to have labored breathing, fainted up.
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After he was exacerbated a little bit, he kept continually tripodting and had distractions.
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around the test.
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We got there in, to find him as much of the same position.
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SBO2 on C was 84%.
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He was on 5 liters O2B and on re-breather.
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We've on 15.
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He is now 97% on room air.
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Current set of vitals. He is A&O x4, GCS 15.
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Heart rate is 85% or rate of 80.
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97% on room air, correction on that non-re breather at 15 liters per minute.
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Respirations is 20 and titles 50.
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Last blood pressure.
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is 157 over 77, sugar is 1.5brile at this time.
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We are about 10 minutes out in questions.
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Location mentioned:
Matlock Rd, Arlington, TX 76015
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