Patient airlifted to university hospital with critical care, Iowa City IA


A critically injured patient from near S Clinton St is being airlifted to the university hospital rooftop. Life-saving treatments including ventilation, calcium gluconate, blood transfusions, and chest tubes are being administered en route.
Audio|Source: Johnson County Fire/EMS
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Transcript:
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University from AirCare 3, University.
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University.
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University's online, go ahead.
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University College of Cure 3 is calling your trauma alert at this time. This is a patient from near S Clinton St.
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Mercy 1.
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Currently we are being ventilated.
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He has a heart rate of 1.3.
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Eleanoration of 83,
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excuse me, pulse tax of 82, blood pressure.
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over 60.
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33 on-hand title.
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We are giving him calcium gluconate this time. He has received a total of nine units of RBCs, and he is on his fifth FFT.
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We should be to the roof in approximately nine minutes, and we are going, as you can send up, a couple of extra hands. That would be fantastic.
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We do have bilateral chest tubes in, Foley in, and an OGN.
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Other than that,
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we're doing okay.
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Can you repeat the vitals you were cutting out during that whole time?
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10.
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Vitals are 124 for a heart rate,
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1-0 over 60 for a blood pressure.
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N-title is 35, O2's saturation is 81.
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He is on the ventilator.
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All right, I got everything except you, the blood pressure you cut out again.
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Blood pressure is 1-0-1 over 6-0.
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10-4. I got that. We'll see on the roof about 9.
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University clear.
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10-4.
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Location mentioned:
Near S Clinton St Suite A, Iowa City, IA 52240
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