Man with heart condition suffers severe abdominal pain

Heard on: Ziebach SD EMS-Tac Group Calls

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Working hospital, working ambulance.

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Go for Brookings Hospital.

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Brookings Hospital, this is Brookings Ambulance.

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We're en route with 34.

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31 year old male patient with CHF that has been vaping excessively today.

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Went to the bathroom due to some constipation from having a.

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From having an appendectomy a couple of days ago, and patients look really good.

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Right now, he did have a large emesis prior to our arrival on scene.

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He was trying to eat cereal for the fiber to help him with the constipation after having a bowel movement, which was hard, difficult to do.

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Patient started having extreme abdominal pain.

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Right now, he is a sinus rhythm on the monitor, pulse of sixty-five, 100 % on room air.

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We are. Hypertensive, currently at 100 and sixty-two over 114 .

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We do have IV access.

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Have given 4 mg of zofran and 1 mg of ketamine in effort to settle him down and keep him calm as well as help with pain.

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Our ETA to your facility is probably about 10 min .

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Sounds great.

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Thank you. See you on arrival.

9/6/2026 04:30 PM

Medical Emergency

22nd Ave, Brookings, SD 57006

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As discussed during the dispatch call, an ambulance is transporting a 31-year-old man to a Brookings hospital after he developed severe abdominal pain, vomiting, and constipation following a recent appendectomy. The patient appears stable with normal heart rhythm and oxygen levels, and the ambulance reports an estimated arrival in about 10 minutes.