Medical emergency: patient with breathing distress in locked apartment, Virginia Beach VA
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According to the dispatch call, emergency responders were called to a medical emergency at an apartment near Woodburn Court in The Lakes. The patient, a 24-year-old male with breathing difficulties, was inside a locked apartment and unable to open the door. Responders attempted to contact building maintenance and family members to gain entry. The patient was conscious and breathing but experiencing respiratory distress.
Audio|Heard on: Virginia Beach EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
A patient is breathing but not conscious,
00:05
also complaining of respiratory distress; unable to speak in full sentences at this time.
00:17
If it is breathing,
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at 7.28.
00:29
We're unable to access the patient's apartment because the door is locked.
00:33
Would you be able to contact the building's maintenance or the son, perhaps?
00:39
Did my just look?
00:45
In Beach 1428, I'm going to try to call the patient.
00:48
I want access code to be (number withheld).
00:56
1428 we're inside the building but the apartment door is locked and the patient is bedridden and unable to unlock it for us. I'm going to call this one.
01:08
Near Woodburn Court in The Lakes at 7:14.
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Rescue 16, 16, 23 for an illness, near Woodburn Court in The Lakes at 7:14.
01:25
Virginia Beach 2, 14, 2018.
01:32
1428. I called the number we have for emergency maintenance.
01:36
I did not get an answer.
01:38
I called the contact person.
01:39
She is in Portsmouth.
01:41
She told me two minutes and then hung up on me.
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I tried calling the son and did not get an answer.
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And fourth.
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At 17:14.
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Dispatch, ambulance 1623, we are en route.
02:02
10-4, I'll put you en route, you're going to near Woodburn Court in The Lakes.
02:07
Your patient is a 24-year-old male, conscious, breathing, awake, responding appropriately.
02:13
Retaining fluid at 7:16.
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23.
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Location mentioned:
The Lakes, Virginia Beach, VA 23452
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