Medical emergency involving elderly woman transported to hospital, Maplewood MN
Medical EmergencyAn elderly woman from a care center is being transported to St. John's Hospital due to low blood sugar and kidney failure. She is diabetic and has low blood sugar levels treated with glucose. Vital signs reported include normal oxygen saturation on oxygen support, stable heart rate, and blood pressure.
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Yeah, so coming to 8-minute ETA, St.
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John's 93-year-old female lung speaking, coming from care center.
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They'd state the patient was being a little more abundant this evening.
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She was just kind of not really alert and orientated for them.
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They initially thought she was having some low blood pressure, low oxygen saturation with a low heart rate.
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For us, oxygen saturation is 94%.
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She normally is on 2.5 liters of oxygen for the staff there.
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I do have her at 3 liters and she's 94% oxygen saturation.
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Heart rate 74, sinus rhythm on the heart monitor.
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Blood pressure for us is 102 over 70.
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We've got a respiratory rate of...
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She is kidney failure.
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She's a diabetic.
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We did check her blood sugar.
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It's 51. She's had one tube of Glutose.
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I'm going to reassess that blood sugar.
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And we'll be down at St.
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John's. In about eight minutes, yellow patient,
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Near Beam Ave, Maplewood, MN 55109
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