Medical Response for Patient in Respiratory Distress


Emergency medical responders were called for a person having trouble breathing at a Walmart store. The situation was serious enough that they upgraded the response to indicate a potential life-threatening infection.
Audio|Source: Knox County Public Safety
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Transcript:
to read this yes tonight 745 priority one[1] Walmart on Chapman highway 45 probably 45 probably at 7thage highway highway all street road and west new road drop channel 5 is good a truck engine nights at wall highway cross street green road is northern road Dispice for 19. What channel is that? 19, if you would attack 5, please, sir. 19 for this match. Can you repeat, please? Tack 5, please. 19 copy. Our MDTs. We'll get back. We're out to Walmart for respiratory distress. 53D, can you say the MTPs down? Affirmative, sir. We may have some kind of problem going on. I just got a call for another one. Tanker one was complaining of it too. Okay. 55 dispatch, we're upgrading emergency traffic. We're going to be running this code sepsis. Copy upgrading code 3[2] sepsis.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
priority one: High-priority emergency
[2]
code 3: Emergency response using lights and siren
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Location mentioned:
Near Chapman Hwy, Knoxville, TN 37920
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