Female worker has seizure at construction site near Duke Health, Cary NC

 Medical Emergency
Medical EmergencyA female worker at a construction site near Duke Health had a seizure on the second floor. She is conscious and breathing after the seizure. The patient has a history of stroke but no epilepsy or diabetes. Emergency responders used a hoist to bring her down to the ground for medical care.
Audio|Source: Cary Fire-Rescue
03:39
Transcript:
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200 Duke Hills Carry Place, reference a seizure call.
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200 Duke Cells Carrey Place. Look, your son on TAC 40, TAC 40. Tach 40.
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Light are you on force.
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Engine 8. We may not need your truck, but we could use your manpower. We have a patient on the second floor of the construction site.
00:25
We can use their people hoist to get them, but we're going to need to package them up and lash them in to get them down to ground level.
00:35
Ladder 8 copies, Engine 8.
00:41
We would make entry through the construction entrance that we talked about when we did the site visit here.
00:51
And I would just stop where the pavement ends.
00:55
It's extremely muddy and slippery.
01:01
That's the one closest to 55, that side, right?
01:05
Yeah, closest to 540 and 55, yes, sir.
01:10
Good. Good.
01:15
Can you give Station 32 a radio test, please?
01:30
Yes, sir, stay my.
01:43
Station 32-Gron.
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Your call,
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(number withheld) Dryon Road, Room 107 AM,
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Highfield Nursing.
01:59
Workier 7 on Tack 41, 4-1.
02:06
Station 32 for this batch, I gave out a call right when you keyed up. Everything goes good with your tone test.
02:13
Good board, thank you. Good more.
02:22
Jerry, land of threes and around on 41.
02:30
Engine AEMS on 40.
02:34
Good afternoon, 40.
02:39
This is going to be located at the construction site behind Duke Health on Green Level West.
02:47
There is an entrance, if you're looking at the building on the right-hand side of the hospital,
02:52
that runs along 540. You'll follow that back and make a left on the paved trail.
02:57
We're in the process of getting the patient loaded into a hoist and brought down to ground level for you.
03:04
A patient seizure,
03:05
unable to communicate with them right now, still post-dictal, and none of the other workers have any information on them, but maybe we'll have that by the time we get here.
03:24
She is responding on 41 to be a 44-year-old female conscious in breathing. I'm having a seizure.
03:29
She's not having more than one seizure a row, no diabetic history, no epilepsy.
03:34
She's breathing now with the elevated breathing rate. Does have a history of stroke.
03:37
Drinking has stopped at this time.
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Location mentioned:
Near Wellesley Trade Ln, Cary, NC 27519
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