Elderly male has breathing difficulty at nursing facility, La Mesa CA
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Medical EmergencyAccording to the dispatch call, an 89-year-old man at a skilled nursing facility in La Mesa had trouble breathing. Staff called 911. He was treated with oxygen and taken to Sharp Grossmont Hospital by ambulance.
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Transcript:
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This is going to be an 89-year-old male chief complaint's respiratory distress.
00:03
Coming from a skilled nursing facility in La Mesa, nursing staff here states that they notice is oxygen saturation drops for the history of heart failure and pneumonia, so they activated 911.
00:21
Initial vitals on arrival 24 times a minute shallow but effective at 89% on room air.
00:31
We are bronch eye for lungsounds.
00:36
Initial treatment,
00:38
we got him on a non-breather, 10 liters per minute.
00:41
Oxygen saturation is up to 96% on that non-re breather.
00:47
Full vitals now, he's still breathing about 24 times a minute, still shallow but effective, he's adding at that 96% with the non-breather.
00:53
He is responding to painful stimuli.
00:56
Eyes are spontaneous or responding to painful stimuli as well.
01:01
and he's moving all four extremities to painful stimuli.
01:04
Cetopolis is 62.
01:07
Science on the monitor, 12 leaves for the first degree blocks, no elevation.
01:11
Blood pressure,
01:12
144 over 66, skins are pink warm and dry.
01:17
Secondary is negative.
01:18
Blood sugar within normal limits.
01:19
Temperature that we got was 96.1.
01:23
We'll recheck that temperature as well.
01:25
Other treatment, we're going to be looking for IV access.
01:28
Nice easy right to Sharp Grossmont Hospital.
01:30
Keeping on that O2 stat.
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Location mentioned:
Grossmont Center Dr, La Mesa, CA 91942
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