Woman on home dialysis flushes heparin into bloodstream
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Preston County Fire and EMS
02:03
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Preston call center station 15 camp, need a reformation.
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See (name withheld) call sick person (number withheld) Buffalo Lane, Evansville area.
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Traveler eleven six.
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15 base acknowledges.
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15, copy 1118.
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6682 is en route.
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6682, you're on 1121.
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You're going to be responding to (number withheld) Buffalo Lane in the Evansville area.
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Break.
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Go ahead.
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She responded for a thirty-three-year-old female.
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Her mom was the initial caller.
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She said that the patient is on home dialysis and she accidentally flushed her heparin into her cath port, which went into her blood stream.
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Break.
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Okay.
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She's
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not able to get a hold of the home health coordinator, the dialysis nurse.
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She tried, but she can't get a hold of them.
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She stated that she googled it and it said that she needed to go to the hospital and be seen immediately.
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Break.
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Okay.
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Six eighty-two.
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She advised that the only thing that she can really tell so far is that her blood pressure did drop some from the initial check.
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It dropped to ninety-nine over forty-three.
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Patient was conscious, alert, breathing okay for herself.
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I did talk to the patient briefly.
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She was going to initially refuse an ambulance, but when I started to read the refusal, she said, "Never mind, just send them."
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Break.
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Go ahead.
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Six eighty-two.
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Patient is on a blood thinner.
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The home dialysis.
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She does have a DVT and clotting disorder, and has AKI.
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Go ahead.
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All right, I think we're familiar.
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I think they see that call.
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