Elderly woman falls, suffers head injury and high blood pressure, Charlotte NC


An elderly woman fell and hit her head hard, showing high blood pressure and confusion related to her previous health issues. Emergency medical and fire units were sent to help her.
Audio|Source: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Fire
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Transcript:
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Medic 59 from Matthew Zenza 12.
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COVID-59. H-Q,
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you have an update.
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Elderly female fall was a pretty good lump to her forehead.
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Her heart rate's 103, but her blood pressure is 206 over 102.
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Ten-four, do we know she's got a history of hypertension?
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Not any longer she did, but she had lost some weight and she's no longer on the medication.
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She's usually good, so this is new from her daughter.
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Ten-four, how is her meditation right now is she responding normally and appropriately?
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She has the history of dementia and she's also hard to hear and she's responding to us as best she can but she's confused.
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10-4[1], medic 59 you see, but we're going to go ahead and upgrade just due to the blood pressure.
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Therefore.
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Engine three is on scene.
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Thank you two more.
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Another one alarm.
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362 is on scene.
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Number one.
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Engine 12, medic routine fall with injury, 1215 pound of the circle, on B, Bravo.
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Engine 12, metagroutine fall with injury, 1215 pound of the circle on B, bravo.
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