Woman showing stroke symptoms after misdiagnosed migraine
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Negative, give me information only.
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Harford County Medic 83, we're en route to you with probably about a 10-minute ETA.
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Stroke alert.
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How do you guys copy so far?
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Harford County Medic 83 is en route to you with a priority one stroke alert.
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We do have a 58, there's a 58-year-old female.
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They're showing signs of a stroke.
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Family brought patient earlier to Upper Chesapeake in Bel Air where she was diagnosed with a migraine and was discharged.
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Family brought the patient home where she took a nap at 05:00 p.m.
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When she woke up, she's been acting completely different and symptoms have been worse than what they were before.
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Family is concerned the patient is having a stroke.
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When they saw her wake up, slurred speech, had lost her ability to speak and walked straight to a wall.
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On our arrival, patient is disoriented, is only oriented to herself, has a GCS of 13 , is showing signs of aphasia.
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She does have a little bit of slurred speech that has gotten better, but her labs is a zero.
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Blood sugar is going to be 145 .
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Her vitals are going to be a stand.
01:00
Heart rate's 91 , normal sinus rhythm on the monitor.
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She is 98 % room air.
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Precautionary, we did give four liters of oxygen.
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She is COPD.
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We wanted to see if that changed anything.
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It did not.
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Patient's breathing at 22 times a minute with a capnography of 30 .
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Blood pressure is the most recent blood pressure that we got was one.
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Ninety over 100 .
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Only denies any blood thinners.
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She is a smoker and are just very adamant that she's acting worse than before and want her to be checked out at a different hospital.
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Just why we are coming to you guys.
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Just in case with the seizure,
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we are just doing a stroke alert for a possible either LV or bleed.
01:41
Not quite sure yet.
01:42
Engage left forearm.
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Any other questions? ETA will be 10 min .
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Work with the last known.
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That's well known when they came back was when they came back from the hospital at 05:00 p.m.
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So, 10 h ago, out of the four-hour window.
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