Medical helicopter transports woman with chest pressure, Holiday Island AR
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Medical EmergencyA medical helicopter coordinated transport for a woman experiencing chest pressure and high blood pressure. The landing zone was set at a church parking lot in Holiday Island, Arkansas. The patient, a 78-year-old female, was treated with aspirin and nitroglycerin and requested transport to Washington Regional Hospital in Fayetteville for cardiac care.
Audio|Heard on: Holiday Island Fire
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02:48
Transcript:
00:00
Unit 1751, this is Mercy Lifeline 1.
00:03
Howdy, copy?
00:07
This is 1751.
00:09
Go ahead, Marcy.
00:11
Hey there, just want to give you guys a heads up.
00:13
We're about three minutes away from the coordinate LZ that we have.
00:18
Could we get patient info or see an LZ brief from you?
00:24
I'll be your LZ coordinator.
00:27
You're going to have a structure to the south,
00:31
light poles and electrical lines to your north,
00:35
with a tree line to your east, you're landing in the parking lot of a church.
00:42
Okay, good company, church parking lot.
00:45
We'll probably do a few orbits to take a look at it as well.
00:48
We'll see it on the ground.
00:54
Mercy, 1193, we'll have your patient information.
00:58
Okay, good copy.
00:59
Are you going to be on this channel?
01:02
Copy that, yes, sure.
01:07
1193, it's Mercy Life Line 1.
01:10
You've got time for patient info.
01:15
1193 central on same.5.
01:22
Last line, this is a right of 93.
01:25
You ready for a patient report?
01:29
What night, three, let me follow off.
01:31
Go ahead.
01:32
We have on board a 78-year-old female that had chest pressure began around 7:15 a.m.
01:42
Blood pressure was elevated.
01:45
I had 220 over 125 initially.
01:52
Current pressure 160 over 60, 12.
01:55
86, 16 breaths per minute.
01:57
Got 97% in our room there.
01:59
Uh, told me he gave the right bundle branch block.
02:03
The pressure had to ease quietly.
02:05
I have a 20-gauge IV in the left eight feet.
02:09
We gave 324 mg of aspirin and she took one nitro prior to our arrival.
02:15
All right, sounds good.
02:18
You can have a weight on the patient and a destination purpose.
02:30
The weight of 230 pounds, height 5'4 and the patient requests Washington Regional in Fayetteville where her cardiologist is.
02:44
That sounds great.
02:45
We'll be on the ground here in about one minute.
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Holiday Island, AR 72631
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