We're going to a 60-year-old male conscious and breathing,
and literally, the chief complaint is male
took a male enhancement pill.
OK, so what's the problem?
LINDSAY: What's the problem?
JANETTE: And he may not want to say.
Like, I mean, sometimes it can drop your blood pressure.
Exactly.
LINDSAY: And it could drop your blood pressure
because all the blood--
JANETTE: It shunts to you.
It shunts to your--
--member.
LINDSAY: Or, he took it, like, last night.
And it's still not--
And it's still just up and ready to go.
I understand, like, why that would be alarming.
What if it was one of them, like, little gas station pills.
Those things are sketchy.
I don't even think that anybody really
knows what goes in there.
For whatever reason, I respond to a lot of, like,
erectile dysfunction calls.
It sounds comical, but it's really nothing to laugh about.
The side effects that are associated with that, I mean,
they're pretty serious.
You want to make sure your best friend is in good condition.
Like, that's what we're worried about.
3-2-4-8, we're in the area.
Hello, hi.
Who we here for?
So he's been vomiting, that's the problem.
If you could get me the little package of whatever he took.
JANETTE: It was super important for us to know what he actually
took, because if we're going to start treating him,
we got to make sure that we're not causing him more harm.
Miss, step out really quick, Ms. Jennifer.
Let us get in there. - Come on.
Come on, let them get in and do what they
need to do so they can check.
All right.
Do you know where you are right now?
You don't understand?
Hey, Mr. Kevin, we're going to get
some vital signs on you, OK?
Mr. Kevin, can you look at me?
Lindsay and I are responding to a male who took
an over-the-counter male enhancement
drug and now he's vomiting and appears to be disoriented.
We're checking them now.
We checking him right now, babe, OK?
MAN: That's what he took.
JANETTE: The thing that's most concerning about this call
is that he's altered.
He really shouldn't be, just taking
a simple over-the-counter medicine.
We have to get to the bottom to why he seems to be so confused.
OK.
Who's Jodie?
Sometimes it can drop their blood pressure.
We're going to check that.
MAN: He told me it's a blood pressure medicine.
Mr. Kevin, can you talk to me?
Squeeze my hands.
She's not here right now, OK?
This is Lindsay and I'm Jeanette with--
we're New Orleans EMS.
We're here to check you out, OK?
All of his vital signs are stable,
but he definitely needs to go to the ER
so they can do some blood work and make sure
that he doesn't have any more episodes
to where he goes unconscious.
They're going to get him taken care of, all right?
We're going to bring it to the hospital
and get you checked out, all right, Mr. Kevin?
We're going to carry him out in a little bit.
We're going to carry you out, OK?
My heart breaks for him to know that when you've been
married to somebody so long and you lose them,
do you ever really stop grieving them?
Probably not, and there's nothing that I can do
tonight to comfort our patient.
LINDSAY: We're going to give you some medicine
to help you stop throwing up, and we're
going to give you some fluids.
I'm gonna start an IV, Mr. Kevin.
Don't move, OK?
Big stick, babe.
Perfect.
Did you get your IV in?
Yeah, ready to go.
A little mask, OK?
She's going to meet you at the hospital, all right?
All right, Mr. Kevin, this is a super personal question, OK?
But I need to know.
Do you have, like, an erection right now?
Like, an erection from that pill?
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