The middle-aged unconscious female with cold clammy skin and 120 bpm needs to be transported by helicopter to be taken to the nearest emergency department.
Explanation:
According to the emergency department triage scale where the level decreases with lesser seriousness, level 1 indicates a highly emergent situation where immediate life-saving intervention or resuscitation is required. Hence, the patient should be taken to the ED at the earliest.
The woman patient is unconscious and with cold and clammy skin and high heart rate of 120 bpm and these symptoms could be associated with a heart attack. Hence, she should be air dashed through a helicopter to reach the nearest ED. Every second count under such critical situations and the patient should be started on resuscitative interventions to save life.
Other conditions indicate less serious situations on the triage scale and hence can be shifted through ambulance.
