Critical male patient airlifted from Pulaski hospital, Pulaski TN
Medical EmergencyA male patient with sickle cell disease, heart failure, liver failure, and kidney disease was airlifted from Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Pulaski ER to a hospital in Nashville. The patient is seriously ill but currently stable and required immediate medical attention.
Audio|Source: Maury Regional EMS
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Transcript:
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Aircom has lifted from base three souls two hours of fuel dispatch 975 on a dispatch we're headed down to southern hills in Pulaski and we'll take additional information at this time
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Roger, lifeflife, Forgotch, lifted three souls, two hours using on fuel and release Niner-7-5.
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Flight number is going to be one, nineer four, nineer zero two, responding for a three-ninner-year-old male, weighs one, four-five pounds, diagnosed with aniscarra.
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Patient has no special equipment, no drips, picking up ER, bet six, southern Tennessee, Pulaski, Tennessee,
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dropping off any Maine, Nashville, Tennessee, ER, and acceptance is confirmed.
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Fly-by-forward, I've got more clinical if you'd like.
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Go ahead, please.
01:07
Good evening, so this gentleman presented with shortness of bread, generalized weakness,
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kind of a failure could thrive picture.
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He has a history of sickle cell and also bi-ventricular heart failure was reduced EF, about 20, 25% liver failure and chronic kidney disease, all appear to be from his sickle cell disease.
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My assumption is that he's got worse than any liver failure.
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anastarker from that because of his right side heart failure progressing.
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He's presently stable.
01:45
His vitals are stable, hemodynamics.
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He wears three liters or two at home.
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And so he's not acutely decompensating, but they did want to go ahead and fly him.
01:56
His overall picture is he's pretty ill.
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Location mentioned:
Near E College St, Pulaski, TN 38478
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