Older man airlifted for breathing difficulty from swollen tongue, La Mesa CA
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Medical EmergencyAccording to the dispatch call, a 69-year-old man experienced difficulty breathing due to a swollen tongue. He was treated with epinephrine and Benadryl but had limited improvement. The patient was airlifted by Mercy Air 8 to the hospital for further care.
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03:49
Transcript:
00:00
Grossmont, case number (number withheld), 69-year-old male,
00:06
chief complaint of difficulty breathing from swollen tongue.
00:14
Okay, I copy that.
00:15
Can you give me that run number one more time?
00:19
Affirmative.
00:20
Case number (number withheld).
00:25
You know, that came to you from Engine 43.
00:31
Grossmont 496, sorry, cut in.
00:33
We got an update on our patient.
00:38
Sorry, would the updates, was that 496 or 416?
00:42
That's 496.
00:43
Our patient is now responsive to pain.
00:46
I'd like to upgrade this to major trauma going to children's and also a little bit of a radical respiratory right here.
00:55
Okay,
00:57
I copy. We'll let them know.
01:00
Copy. We're about a minute out right now.
01:02
All right, medic 47, I'm sorry about that go ahead with the report.
01:08
Copy that. So a 69-year-old male patient, she complained of difficulty breathing from swollen tongue.
01:15
The patient said that started at 9 a.m.
01:18
this morning.
01:20
He's unsure about what might have caused it.
01:22
He's only allergic to sulfa medications,
01:25
but he denied any kind of animal bite or beasting or allergies to shellfish or anything like that.
01:36
The patient is long time to work there.
01:39
His vitals were 110 on scene, heart rate, blood pressure, 163 over 94, breathing at about 18 reps a minute.
01:50
CO2 is at 97% on room air.
01:53
We did give him three doses of 0.5 epi for a total of 1.5 milligrams of 1 to 1,000 epi as well as 50 of Benadryl, all I am.
02:06
It didn't really seem to take him to the fact that the tongue did reduce the swelling just a little bit, but not much.
02:16
We have transferred care to...
02:18
breach and they're on their way with a detail approximately 10 minutes.
02:24
correction, it was Mercy 8.
02:27
Mercy Air 8, is that what you said?
02:32
That's affirmative.
02:35
First one, Mercy 8.
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Hey, Mercy 8, you can go ahead.
02:41
Medic 47, I'll just get the rest of the fort for Mercy.
02:44
We can clear.
02:46
Creswell, Merci, where you hit down your location.
02:48
ETA is going to be (number withheld) minutes with the paid for META 47.
02:54
No significant patient status changes.
02:56
His fungus is still specifically swelling.
02:58
He's got another .1 milligrams IDFB on board.
03:02
Outside of that, we don't attend any further treatment.
03:06
He's sat pretty well at 97 and titles 25.
03:08
He's moving a good amount of air.
03:10
Blood pressure is solid, 110 sign attack.
03:14
I guess the only known allergy to SOFA, but he did take a blood pressure medication.
03:19
We got a bag of pride here.
03:20
We're going to him right now.
03:23
Can I get anything else for you?
03:26
So just to clarify we'd have...
03:30
That's affirmative.
03:31
The ground guys had gotten three rounds of IM at the onboard.
03:37
We did one round of IV.
03:40
Okay, copy that.
03:41
Just let me know if anything changes, okay?
03:44
Copy that, we're on in the airway.
03:46
If we lose the airway, we'll do a crack in the air and we'll let you know if that goes that far.
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Location mentioned:
Grossmont Center Dr, La Mesa, CA 91942
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