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You respond to the local gym for a reported cardiac arrest. Enroute dispatch updates there is an AED on site. Shortly after they advise the AED has shocked the patient twice. You arrive to find a late 50s male lying supine on the floor by the free weights, GCS of 5. Pulse is rapid and strong, breathing at 24 times a minute. Pupils are PERRL, lungs are clear, skin is warm pale moist.
Your local community hospital is 7 minutes away and has very limited capability. Your Trauma/STEMI/Stroke center is 80 minutes away.
What additional information do you need?
What are you going to do for this patient?
And what's your destination hospital?
Your local community hospital is 7 minutes away and has very limited capability. Your Trauma/STEMI/Stroke center is 80 minutes away.
What additional information do you need?
What are you going to do for this patient?
And what's your destination hospital?