Julie London credited as playing...
Dixie McCall, R.N.
- 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]