Man found unresponsive at Main Blvd treated for low blood sugar, Ringtown PA
Medical EmergencyA 56-year-old man was found unresponsive in a bathroom near Main Blvd. EMS treated him for low blood pressure and high blood sugar. After treatment, he became more alert and showed no signs of trauma or substance abuse. The man is a known diabetic and may not have been taking his medication.
Audio|Source: Northumberland County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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District 9, QRS, near Main Blvd, East Union township,
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sick person. District 9, QRS, near Main Blvd, East Union township, a sick person, 14-07.
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Quest medical command.
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Copy 5, standby.
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Dr. Barry, go ahead.
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Hey, Dr. Barry, Gino and John, I'm left-flight five with a five-in-a-a-ta copy.
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56-5-6-year-old male who EMS was called for an unresponsive individual in the bathroom.
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They had some difficult to get him. It sounds like he was between the commode and like a cabinet. He was kind of just slumped over.
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Initially, according to the paramedic report, he was completely unresponsive, even to a deep painful stimulant to the chest.
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He was hypotensive, 60 over 40. He had what EMS described as a left-side... gave and just not responding and he was not following commands at that point.
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They put him on some oxygen, got an IV, start giving him some fluid. He's had a total about four or five hundred MLs of normal saline. We find him in the back of the ambulance on our arrival to be more alert.
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We'll give him a GCS of 14 just because he has some altered,
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just more confused than anything. He does speak in one-word sentences.
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We don't. see that visual gaze at this point and doesn't seem to have any peripheral
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any deficits as far as motor
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goes,
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so he is a known diabetic that he doesn't, family believes he hasn't been taking his medication, they're not sure if he's just non-compliant.
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Blood sugar was 576 for EMS.
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Like I said, we have a moderate sinus.
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Heart rate is about 120s, 130s.
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His last blood pressure for us was 86 systolic.
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95 or 59 will reload him in the aircraft.
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He's setting at 99% right now on supplement oxygen.
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The scholar seems to be able to do their fiscal findings on him.
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As far as we know, his only history of diabetes.
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Stanley doesn't report that the detects, quote, unquote,
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for the past couple of weeks.
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Though we're not really strong, he doesn't appear to stop well as long as we're clear.
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And if you have any questions.
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Trauma, correct?
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...trains of trauma, correct?
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Are we doing the only hours like that number?
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Send anything else. We'll see you get ship at.
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Have a safe flight in.
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Near Main Blvd, Ringtown, PA 17967
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