Medical emergency at Froedtert Rehab Center, Wauwatosa WI
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Medical EmergencyAccording to the dispatch call, emergency medical personnel responded to a possible cardiac arrest involving a middle-aged man at Froedtert Rehab Center in Wauwatosa. The patient experienced pulseless electrical activity and underwent extended CPR before regaining a pulse during transport.
Audio|Heard on: Milwaukee WI EMS-Talk Group Calls
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03:18
Transcript:
00:00
At this time we have a 35-year-old male.
00:05
Sorry, went into a PEA rhythm.
00:08
We're currently over at the Froedtert Rehab Center.
00:11
Patient was actually scheduled to go home today.
00:15
No considerable health history.
00:19
We've been in recurrent PEA around 135 beats per minute for approximately 25 minutes now.
00:28
We have five epinephrine doses on board, still working.
00:32
Copy that. It sounds like he was at a rehab facility and CPR for twenty-five minutes, was initiated immediately after coding.
00:41
And then can you clarify, is this a narrow complex or a wide complex PEA?
00:48
Affirmative, doctors.
00:49
This is a narrow complex.
00:52
He is here due to a spinal cord injury and it's been a narrow complex at that rate, pretty persistent throughout.
01:02
Heart rate is about 68 right now.
01:08
Could you say he's sitting at sixty-eight beats per minute on that PEA? And then can you also provide airway and glucose info?
01:21
That's affirmative.
01:22
We have live treatment going right now.
01:23
He's PEA at 60.
01:25
We have an i-gel in place.
01:27
Patent airway.
01:29
The end tidal was sitting right around 20 for the last 10 minutes of CPR.
01:35
Hasn't dipped lower.
01:37
We had one spike up to about 30.
01:40
Pulse track showing PEA.
01:43
Copy that. Is everyone on scene comfortable with transporting this patient?
01:49
You said comfortable for transporting, doctor.
01:53
Copy that. I think we should transport the patient.
01:58
Copy that. We're going to get moving.
01:59
What's your dock number again?
02:02
Stock (number withheld).
02:03
Can you state your destination and estimated time of arrival?
02:10
We're going to Froedtert, arrival in approximately ten minutes.
02:17
Come to Tower 53.
02:18
Do you have IO access and a blood sugar?
02:22
Blood sugar is 181 and we have left tibial IO access.
02:28
Fluids are running right now.
02:31
Okay, copy that.
02:32
Doctor, did you hear that?
02:35
Can you repeat that, please?
02:38
Yes, blood sugar is 181 and they have IO access.
02:43
Copy that.
02:46
Tower 53, switch back to primary.
02:50
Tower 53 update: we have pulses back right now, we're moving.
02:55
Copy that. Initiate post-ROSC protocol if you have pulses back.
02:59
We did a full set of vitals and EKG on this patient.
03:02
Consider hanging norepinephrine since we had a narrow complex PEA initially that may have been pseudo-PEA.
03:09
And then as soon as possible after transporting the patient.
03:14
Copy that. We'll be looking into norepinephrine.
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Location mentioned:
W Bluemound Rd, Wauwatosa, WI 53226
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