Car and motorcycle crash with severe injuries in Boone, Boone NC


A serious traffic crash occurred near Boone, NC, involving a car and a motorcycle. One person sustained multiple severe injuries including fractures to both legs and spine injury. Emergency responders performed CPR for 15 minutes and provided advanced medical care on scene.
Audio|Source: Watauga County Fire, EMS and Rescue, Boone and Blowing Rock Fire
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Transcript:
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Procatee, Medicare, 7.
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This is the Air Care 2.
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We are showing about 9 minutes out from, we're talking telepen if you don't care to give us any patient information if you got it.
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TN4, we currently have a patient...
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65s approximately 200 to 240.
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It was in a NBC car versus a motorcycle.
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We have an open femur and chip-fid fracture on the left leg as well as a closed chip-fid fracture on the right leg, obvious decrepitance in the cervical spine, as well as we did have a loss of pulse, completed CPR for 15 minutes.
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and we do have ROC, his current heart rate is 114.
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The patient has received three rounds of Cushose Epi as well as 1,000 MLs of fluid.
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The patient has received a gram of TXA as well as two grams of Ancest.
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The patient is currently on a drip of EPI at 4 mics a minute.
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he is being assisted with an eye jail.
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Highway Patrol on the scene of the 1050PI requesting the unit 1025 back.
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Turniquet above the left seamer, it stands 1410.
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Still no active bleeding with, or 1610, I do apologize, no active bleeding out from under the tourniquet.
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Current bottles,
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SCO2 is 24, he is trying to breathe on his own.
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Heart rate 114, steady pulse, normal sinus rhythm.
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16 breaths,
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assistant. He has a left-sided needle decompression for the left lower lobes with no lung sound.
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Patient has an IAO in the right tibia as well as an 18 gauge in the left AC.
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Air Care 2, Poppy, Torres Road, about six minutes out.
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We'll see you shortly.
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Tim, 4, we also have a TPUO response at...
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Boone, NC
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