Medical transport for patient with port infection, Norfolk VA
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Medical EmergencyAccording to the dispatch call, paramedics from Norfolk Medic 15 are transporting an elderly male patient to a local hospital for a possible infection at a medical port site. The patient recently returned home after a hospital stay, missed a dialysis session, and showed signs of discharge around the affected area. Vital signs were stable during transport.
Audio|Heard on: Norfolk VA Hospital Group Calls
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Transcript:
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Leigh Base, go ahead.
00:02
Good afternoon, this is (name withheld).
00:03
This is Norfolk Medic One Five.
00:04
We're en route to your facility with an eighty-two-year-old male patient.
00:07
Chief complaint today of a possible infection around the side of his medical port.
00:12
Patient was just released from your facility.
00:14
I believe the family stated yesterday is when he was home.
00:18
Patient was also scheduled for dialysis today and was unable to make the appointment.
00:24
There was some pus discharge noted around the medical port site.
00:30
Patient has no further complaints at this time.
00:33
Current vital signs are as follows.
00:34
We have a pulse of seventy-one, oxygen saturation at ninety-four percent.
00:37
Patient was placed on home oxygen at three liters after returning from the hospital.
00:41
We currently have him on a nasal cannula at three liters per minute.
00:45
Last blood pressure reading is 110 over sixty-four with clear lung sounds bilaterally, roughly eight minutes from your facility.
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Location mentioned:
Kingsley Ln, Norfolk, VA 23505
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