Pneumonia patient rushed to Rutherford hospital with distress, Rutherfordton NC
Medical EmergencyMedic 50 transports a pneumonia patient from home to facility with shortness of breath and low blood glucose treated with sugar, with crackling lungs and elevated heart rate.
Audio|Source: Polk County Sheriff, Fire, and EMS
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Medic 50, the Rutherford patient report.
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Medic 50 is Rutherford Regional.
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Go ahead.
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This is Medic 50.
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Winter ride to facility routine traffic at this time with a 69-year-old female patient.
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She's coming from home.
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Special breathing problems, says she's been feeling short of breath.
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Got diagnosed with pneumonia around a week ago, hasn't been feeling any better, according to her.
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She's feeling weak as well.
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Check her BGL 37, provide her with 15 grams of sugar at this time, gone up to 56, providing her with another one.
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Heart rates 103,
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normal sinus rhythm with some P.A.C.
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12-lead showed a left normal signs rhythm with the left bundle branch block.
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It doesn't mean stemming criteria.
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There's some peak T waves as well.
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Last repeat taken was 92 over 56.
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Entitles at 17.
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Restoration rates at 28.
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Lung times we could hear crackles on the right upper lobe, clear on the left side.
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We have an ETA of approximately 5 to 10 minutes you require any further before we arrive to facility.
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Rutherfordton, NC 28139
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