Emergency! (TV Series)
The Wedsworth-Townsend Act (1972)
Julie London: Dixie McCall, R.N.
Quotes
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Nurse Dixie McCall : Kell.
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : Yes?
Nurse Dixie McCall : 51 on the link.
[indicates communication radio link to field paramedics]
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : What do they want?
Nurse Dixie McCall : Help.
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : [into transmitter link] 51, go.
Paramedic Roy DeSoto : [over biophone] We have a male, tunnel worker, approximate age 60, was trapped under a digging machine. Patient had a cardiac history. He is now diaphoretic. Vital signs: 80 over 50; rate: 100 and irregular; respirations: 12 and shallow.
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : Do you have your EKG hooked up?
Paramedic Roy DeSoto : Affirmitive, doctor.
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : Send me something so I can get a reading.
[turns on EKG printer]
Paramedic Roy DeSoto : This will be Lead 2.
[turns on ELG transmitter]
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : [reads EKG strip] Multiple PVC's.
[sees reading change]
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : V-Tac.
[reading changes again]
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : He's starting to fibrillate.
[to DeSoto]
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : Defibrillate! 400 watt/seconds!
Nurse Dixie McCall : Kell! They're not authorized to...
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : [into link] Are you receiving? Come on, 51! You've got a dying man on your hands.
Paramedic Roy DeSoto : Doctor, if we administer shock and we lose him...
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : You're losing him right now!
Paramedic Roy DeSoto : You said yourself it wasn't worth risking the program for one case!
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : I just heard from Walski in Sacramento. The bill passed late last night.
Nurse Dixie McCall : Kell... You never heard from Walski.
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : Yeah, well I should have.
Nurse Dixie McCall : Do you know what you're doing? If that bill doesn't pass Kell, they'll crucify you.
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : [looking at EKG strip] I don't care about that. We're not at a party or talking to a committee. That man's dead right now.
[into communication link]
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : Zap him, dammit! Zap him!
Paramedic Roy DeSoto : [watches as Gage applies the defibrillator paddles to the man's chest] 400 watt/seconds!
[Gage shocks him]
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : [reads strip] No conversion.
[into link]
Dr. Kelly Brackett M.D. : Hit him again!
Paramedic Roy DeSoto : 400 watt/seconds!
[Gage shocks the man again. At the hospital, Brackett sees the EKG adopt a normal rhythm]
