Elderly man receives pacemaker shocks while en route to hospital, Clay County KS
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According to the dispatch call, an elderly man in a vehicle near Highway 24 and Frontier is experiencing repeated pacemaker shocks and breathing difficulties. Emergency services are intercepting to provide medical assistance while he is en route to the hospital.
Audio|Heard on: Clay County Sheriff, Clay Center Police and EMS
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02:24
Transcript:
00:00
R.P.
00:01
Advised that her brother has been shocked twice by his pacemaker and they are en route to the hospital.
00:10
Also complaining of trouble breathing.
00:17
Medical unit that they are driving a black Ford Focus at this time, southbound on Frontier Road.
00:32
Click on now.
00:42
Medicaid, Clay County Medical Center.
00:46
Clay County Medical Center, go ahead.
00:54
Many gates and out to US Highway 24 for an intercept of elderly male who has been shocked by his pacemaker twice.
01:03
They are in a black Ford Focus heading towards you.
01:06
We're going to see if we can catch up with them to help out.
01:10
Okay, we'll wait to hear her back.
01:12
CCMC clear.
01:14
Medicate, this will be a Zol vest, external vest,
01:20
that has gone off twice in five minutes.
01:27
Medicaid?
01:32
Medicaid,
01:36
go ahead.
01:39
Are you still in contact with this subject?
01:42
I am.
01:44
Yes.
01:49
We're running lights and sirens on the way out there.
01:52
Everybody's pulling over for us.
01:54
So if you would ask them when they get close and they see us to pull over and flash their headlights so we know it's them.
02:03
Two more.
02:06
Seven to nine are you any more close?
02:11
We're going to be pulling over in front of you with their hazards on?
02:22
We're not seeing them yet.
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