Woman with COPD resuscitated after cardiac arrest at home, Charlottesville VA
Medical EmergencyA 66-year-old woman with chronic lung disease suffered a cardiac arrest at home. Emergency responders performed about 25 minutes of CPR and resuscitated her. She was intubated and flown to the hospital where she remains in critical but stable condition.
Audio|Source: UVA Helicopter Dispatch
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Brin, you guys resuscitating code out of Page County. We're showing about,
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probably about 11 minutes to the rooftop, probably about 13, 40 minutes of the ED.
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A 66-year-old female COPD was fine resuscitated cardiac arrest.
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Just wanted to give you guys a heads up and take a third year.
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Understood. Stand by.
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This is Dr. Nalzadhi. What is your traffic?
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Dr. Care 5 is about 9 minutes route 5, probably about 12, 13 minutes from the ER.
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Bringing you a 66 year old female.
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This is a chronically ill COPD patient.
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I was at home, the EMS was called for difficulty breathing.
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When they got there, they were with her at about 9.58, she went into what appeared to be a B, a cardiac arrest, typically starting CPR,
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and administered two rounds of FEPA.
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Eventually, they got some point that they were able to get her back at around 1024.
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So we're looking at about 25 minutes of CPR.
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What they found was she went back into a V-TAC at that point. She got cardioverted and got 40 milligrams of lot of cane from EMS.
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Since then, she's been hemidynamically fairly stable.
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Currently, we've got her intubated at this time.
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Her current set of vital... are, it looks like an 8-fib with an idiot ventricular at 88.
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Entitle is reading 26 on the ventilator.
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She's being ventilated at 16 times a minute.
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Her blood pressure is 110 over 57, and she is setting 100%. We do have her on 99% FIO2.
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Only thing we have right now is today there with a ketamine infusion at 2 milligrams an hour. She's got a couple lines in place, got about 500 Cs of fluid. Don't know a lot more history. just re-honor of it than that. We'll give everything else to bedside.
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Location mentioned:
Near Ray C. Hunt Dr Suite 2100, Charlottesville, VA 22903
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