Older man transported with heart support device to hospital, Pittsburgh PA
Medical EmergencyA fifty-nine-year-old man with a heart assist device was transported from Presbyterian Hospital to the cardiac care unit at University Hospital. He was stable with normal consciousness and heart rhythm, receiving medication and oxygen support during transportation. The travel time between facilities was about twenty minutes.
Audio|Source: Washington County Police and Fire
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If you just take your report, better facility, post-a-fittance, you are ready.
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Yeah,
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so we're showing about twenty minutes out, going to the cardiac care unit at the University Hospital.
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Fifty-nine-year-old male with an impella device,
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patient current GCS 15.
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Phytocytes,
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heart rate seventy-two,
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in sinus rhythm,
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blood pressure,
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eighty-six over eighty-two, we got napsis.
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He is ninety-eight percent on two-liter nasal cannula receiving dobutamine and viable with the impella.
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He had about twenty minutes from Presbyterian to the cardiac care unit.
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Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
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