Medical team ends resuscitation at Wilmington Hospital, Wilmington DE
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, medical staff at Wilmington Hospital were in consultation regarding an elderly female patient who suffered a cardiac arrest. After approximately 26 minutes of CPR and multiple doses of medication without signs of recovery, the team sought and received authorization to terminate resuscitation efforts.
Audio|Heard on: New Castle DE Hospital Group Calls
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01:55
Transcript:
00:00
Wilmington, go ahead.
00:03
Wilmington, medical aid on scene with an eighty-three-year-old female for a termination of self-care and so forth.
00:12
This is Dr.
00:13
Ninety-Three Eighty-Three Female.
00:15
What's going on? Copy.
00:18
Eighty-three-year old female went to cardiac arrest by family.
00:21
They were unsure of what she might have been before she went to cardiac arrest.
00:28
All right, she was a responsive pulse assistant.
00:31
She's been entitled to about 11.
00:34
I've been doing CPR now for about 26 minutes.
00:38
She's gotten a total of six epinephrine.
00:40
She's been to 702.
00:43
In pilot jumps up to about 30 before progressing back down to about 11 to 14.
00:50
I was looking for a call on for a termination of assisted.
00:53
I thought the patient was usually a very positive and in every rhythm after that, after the initial shock has been.
01:00
Oh, sorry.
01:04
Sorry, medic.
01:05
The transmission is a little muffled, but what I understand so far is that this is an eighty-three year old female with a witnessed cardiac arrest at home.
01:14
You have been performing her resuscitation for twenty-six minutes with an initial VFib that was shocked.
01:21
Everything has been administered.
01:23
Is this correct? Copy.
01:27
That's correct.
01:29
Are you looking for termination of resuscitation? Copy.
01:35
That's affirmative, but the patient being asystole since we were 4 min into the CPR, no changes of her rhythm.
01:41
We even tried sodium bicarb and calcium because the patient has some chronic kidney issues, and we've had no changes with that as well.
01:52
Do you have any end tidal reading? Copy.
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Location mentioned:
W 14th St, Wilmington, DE 19801
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