Elderly man with sepsis taken to hospital, Fort Worth TX
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According to the dispatch call, paramedics from Fort Worth Medic 24 responded to a medical emergency involving an elderly man suffering from sepsis and respiratory failure. The patient was treated en route and transported in critical condition to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital.
Audio|Heard on: Tarrant TX Hospital Group Calls
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Transcript:
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Fort Worth Medic 24 to Harris Downtown, Priority 1.
00:05
That's this alert.
00:07
Texas Health ED, go ahead.
00:09
Hey Harris, this is Fort Worth Medic 24.
00:12
We are coming to you, Priority 1, with an 80-year-old male, sepsis alert.
00:17
Facility states that he had been vomiting earlier.
00:21
His lung sounds were pretty junky for us.
00:23
He was 60% on room air.
00:26
We tried CPAP and BiPAP,
00:28
and he was not improving above 70.
00:30
We currently have an SGA in place with ketamine on board.
00:33
We have pushed calcium.
00:34
We're currently pacing him now.
00:37
We're not... I'm not sure if we have capture at this point because we still have really weak radio pulses and not able to really confirm.
00:43
We have him on 50 mics of EPI and he is 80% with the SGA and 100% oxygen.
00:54
His last blood pressure fails to read.
00:56
We have an end-tidal of 17.
00:58
We're reading for him at 28 times a minute and we'll be at your facility in about 5 to 10.
01:03
Any further questions?
01:05
Bobby, we'll see you when you get here.
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Location mentioned:
Pennsylvania Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76104
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