Unable to confirm that a patient who cannot speak is having a stroke, the EMS responders do their best in this clip from Season 1, Episode 1, “One Nation Under Watch.” #NightwatchNation Subscribe for more from Nightwatch Nation and other great A\u0026E shows: http://aetv.us/subscribe-ae
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0.8 -> so this is officially Getty square what
4.319 -> I call the ground zero of yonkers it's
6.509 -> where it's split south and north we're
9.21 -> heading towards South the others well I
12.269 -> like to say we're all the fun stuff
13.62 -> happens exactly you said you started
17.16 -> here as an interior I did I came to
19.56 -> Yonkers to get a job with Empress I've
29.699 -> always wanted to do this I was born on
31.38 -> the regular Bronx I've seen a couple
33.21 -> people would be shot I've seen a couple
34.829 -> of stabbed because I remember this kid I
37.2 -> think one shot to the head still trying
39.51 -> to talk with one to to the stomach and
40.98 -> ball just standing I was like what can
43.17 -> we do apparently the firehouse they
45.36 -> heard the shots and they showed up they
47.01 -> did their best for that kid
48.42 -> and I stood and I watched them at that
50.489 -> point you knew all that yeah he's not
52.53 -> making it then I was like I really wish
56.25 -> I knew what I could have done in that
57.96 -> situation
71.619 -> there's some licensed cosmic stroke
74.25 -> that's one thing
77.6 -> [Music]
83.01 -> [Music]
87.479 -> are you going on hey Danny we don't know
91.45 -> if he fell or not you just can't speak
93.28 -> can't speak do you understand what I'm
96.85 -> saying no
101.439 -> sweet
102.88 -> we've nothing no you have probably
107.74 -> breathing
108.189 -> no no swallow you're saying you can't
110.439 -> talk Brett
111.479 -> there's a couple things we look for when
114.1 -> someone's having a stroke we see if they
115.659 -> can give us a big toothy smile where
117.7 -> it's symmetrical on both sides we try to
119.619 -> see if they can put both arms in front
121.21 -> of them and do they stay up can you make
123.61 -> a fist nothing huh he was unable to
127.39 -> follow commands so this is another one
129.19 -> of those I'm scratching my head what
130.63 -> could it possibly be acting himself
134.95 -> walking talking 170 over 110 blood
140.8 -> pressure's high his blood pressures
143.05 -> elevated and there was nothing in his
145.63 -> environment that indicated to me that it
147.85 -> was poison alcohol drugs anything take a
151.39 -> seat if I leave him there and it is a
154.269 -> stroke it's not gonna make it I leave
156.28 -> him there and it's something that we
157.48 -> haven't figured out it's not gonna make
159.16 -> it on you ready to go ready babe all
161.53 -> right okay
166.75 -> slow your breathing honey
171.459 -> feel sick when he was in the ambulance I
174.579 -> was watching him experience other signs
177.069 -> and symptoms of a war scene condition
179.049 -> ETA
180.45 -> nine minutes he went into unresponsive
185.799 -> couldn't wake him blood pressure through
188.26 -> the roof
194.42 -> actively stroked
197.89 -> maybe with me honey
199.87 -> [Music]
204.06 -> open one of the indicators of a stroke
207.34 -> can be very high blood pressure like 240
210.28 -> over 130 it's off the chart and I have
212.56 -> to get it down
213.34 -> i administered two nitroglycerine under
217.18 -> his tongue
221.14 -> there we go much better it began to
224.08 -> bring the pressure down which was great
225.85 -> ETA turning into the lot now 156 and
232.12 -> when I need four they like it everything
