{"id":39963,"date":"2025-10-04T00:29:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/patient-treated-after-severe-allergic-reaction-valhalla\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T00:29:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:29:43","slug":"patient-treated-after-severe-allergic-reaction-valhalla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/patient-treated-after-severe-allergic-reaction-valhalla\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient treated after severe allergic reaction, Valhalla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At around 23:09, a distress call came through from Valhalla, west of Pretoria. The caller was terrified &ndash; their loved one was experiencing what appeared to be a severe allergic reaction.<\/p>\n<p>The call was distributed on the @Pretoria Volunteer Emergency Services group, and while no immediate response came from formal medical services (apart from Gauteng Emergency Medical Services  and a Lenmed Hospital EMS Advanced Life Support unit), several PVES volunteer units mobilized without hesitation. On scene were:<\/p>\n<p> A Critical Care Unit<\/p>\n<p> A unit with an Emergency Doctor<\/p>\n<p> An Intermediate Life Support unit<\/p>\n<p> A unit with a final-year medical student<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, our patient was in serious respiratory compromise &ndash; oxygen levels dropping, the airway closing due to swelling from a reaction to newly prescribed blood pressure medication (angioedema). Aoxygen was Administered soonsored by Ecomed Medical <\/p>\n<p>Our teams immediately started administering emergency medication, placed the&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74785&#038;page=patient-treated-after-severe-allergic-reaction-valhalla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At around 23:09, a distress call came through from Valhalla, west of Pretoria. The caller was terrified &ndash; their loved one was experiencing what appeared to be a severe allergic reaction. The call was distributed on the @Pretoria Volunteer Emergency Services group, and while no immediate response came from formal medical services (apart from Gauteng [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/557614366_122159581622596882_406581177796085000_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-39963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-gauteng"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/557614366_122159581622596882_406581177796085000_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}