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We get dispatched last night for SOB/near syncope. Arrive on scene, patient is an approx. 75 yo male. No chief complaint. Completely asymptomatic. So we walk him out to the ambulance. While the medic is getting a PMH, I start taking vitals. BP = 128/50. I take the patient's pulse. His pulse was 20. Yes, 20. I said to myself "That can't be right." Threw the monitor on him... 20. Yet he was CAOx4. I don't remember any of the other vitals because 1) I wasn't crew chief and 2) I was too floored by the fact that this guy didn't code, let alone was up and walking around. Anybody else ever run into something like this?