Patient faints in shower, taken to hospital, Charleston SC
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, a female patient fainted while showering and sustained a minor chin cut. She was alert and stable when paramedics arrived and was transported to the Medical University of South Carolina for evaluation.
Audio|Heard on: Charleston SC Hospital Group Calls
Listen to dispatch call
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Transcript:
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Medical University of South Carolina, Dorchester Medic 9.
00:03
And inbound with a further 80 feet now.
00:08
(Name withheld) was in the shower earlier today and had a syncopal episode, does not remember falling, just remembers waking up in the bottom of the shower.
00:15
Currently (name withheld) is conscious, alert, oriented,
00:18
Answers all of our questions appropriately.
00:21
For the last week or so, been noting some hypotension.
00:26
When we met, (name withheld) had a pulse.
00:27
Blood pressure of ninety-nine over sixty.
00:29
Currently with some fluids going, it's one fourteen over sixty-one.
00:33
Got a pace rhythm sitting in the upper sixties.
00:36
Pacemaker is firing about ninety-five percent of the time.
00:40
Oxygen saturation is 99 percent on room air and blood sugar is 130.
00:43
We should be there uneventfully in about 12 minutes.
00:47
Medic, is this patient on any blood thinners?
00:51
And by medic.
00:54
Medic, does the patient hit her head or is she fine with trauma?
00:59
(Name withheld) does have about a two centimeter laceration to the bottom of the left side of her chin.
01:06
Other than that, no pain complaints, deformities, or anything traumatic found.
01:14
Don't know if it's going to change your decision process or not.
01:16
It does have a C collar face just for carrying yours.
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Location mentioned:
Calhoun St, Charleston, SC 29425
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