Medical emergency on Bacons Bridge Road involves severe bleeding, Summerville SC

Medical Emergency

As discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical services responded to a location near Bacons Bridge Road for a 69-year-old female in full cardiac arrest with severe bleeding from the left groin. CPR and multiple medications were administered for about 45 minutes. The bleeding was controlled with a clotting agent. Despite efforts, the patient showed no pulse and had an agonal rhythm. Orders to terminate resuscitation were requested. The bleeding was later determined to be from a ruptured vein rather than trauma. Transport was not initiated as per medical direction.

Audio|Heard on: Dorchester SC Hospital Group Calls

Listen to dispatch call

05:4

Transcript:

00:00

Summerville Dorchester County Medic 2.

00:11

Go ahead with the end note.

00:16

Hey, this is Dorchester County Medic Two, paramedic method.

00:19

Currently on scene with a sixty-nine, sixty-nine-year-old female full arrest.

00:24

Witness arrest, large amount of bleeding, approximately 1.5 to 2 liters of blood with large clots on the ground.

00:31

On our arrival, family states that patient became lightheaded, dizzy, was laid to the ground and went apneic and pulseless just prior to our.

00:40

Fire department initiated high-quality CPR approximately forty-five minutes ago.

00:43

We've given five rounds of epinephrine.

00:46

We have quick clots over a bleeding area on the patient's left groin.

00:55

We did achieve raw scat 30 min but lost it with a bradycardic rhythm.

01:00

Currently, patient has an agonal rhythm.

01:03

End title is 3636.

01:09

We have.

01:12

Groin.

01:19

She cuffed her groin.

01:24

Can you repeat?

01:27

How she caught her groin.

01:46

The 1st family, it was a bull on the left groin.

01:53

Did have a large amount of bleeding.

01:56

We've packed with Kwik Klot and held pressure throughout the entire duration of the arrest, given two liters of fluid, five rounds of epinephrine, and performed high quality CPR for approximately forty-five minutes.

02:08

Currently still having agonal rhythm, pulse less in tidal.

02:14

Last name title was in the thirties to forties, being bagged with an eye gel approximately one breath every 6 s.

02:21

Any further questions or orders? I'm just asking for order.

02:25

Call up.

02:28

How far out are you?

02:35

Copy. Did you say standby?

02:44

How far out are you?

02:48

We're off Bacons Bridge Road.

02:50

We'd be approximately 15, 10-15 minutes out.

02:54

Was still on scene.

02:56

We're not transporting.

02:57

We're calling for orders to terminate.

03:00

Somerville, can you please repeat? I was calling for orders to terminate.

03:04

Did the dr. grant orders to terminate the arrest?

03:13

If it was a witness arrest, you can't terminate.

03:16

And if it's a trauma to the groin, you need to go to Trident.

03:21

There was?

03:26

Negative, ma'am. We will not be transporting this.

03:29

All right, we're going to terminate the arrest.

03:31

Patient is in a systolic rhythm.

03:33

We've been working this arrest for 40 minutes.

03:36

Patient has approximately at least three layers of blood throughout the floor.

03:40

The wound is no longer bleeding.

03:42

Patient has affirmed it's not a trauma.

03:45

It was a voile that ruptured.

03:49

We would like orders to terminate, please.

03:57

I'm sorry, doctor.

03:58

Asking another dr.

04:01

Several medics, six.

04:04

Just be advised we're about 2 min away from y'all coming with a twenty-six year old male bronchitis.

04:12

He says it was a way to terminate in the field.

04:21

Transport.

04:29

Dorchester, this is Somerville.

04:30

Do you copy the one with the full arrest?

04:42

Dorchester County, this is Somerville Emergency Department.

04:44

We're trying to get a hold of the crew with the full arrest.

04:50

So we'll just copy.

04:52

We copy transport patient in asystole.

04:56

We will continue CPR.

05:00

We will be transporting.

05:01

We're trying to get patient onto the backboard at this time.

Disclaimer:
This transcript is automatically generated by AI from live dispatch audio. Dispatch communications may include background noise, overlapping speakers, or rapidly evolving situations, and automated transcription may not capture all details or context.

Location mentioned:

Bacons Bridge Rd, Summerville, SC

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