Elderly man injured in fall at Chula Vista home, Chula Vista CA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical services responded to a private home near H St in Chula Vista where a 93-year-old man was found unresponsive after falling from a chair. He showed signs of a low Glasgow Coma Score and was in ventricular tachycardia. The fall appeared minor with no outward signs of trauma. Paramedics administered medication and transported him to Scripps Chula Vista Hospital for further care.
Audio|Heard on: San Diego CA Hospital Group Calls
Listen to dispatch call
03:56
Transcript:
00:00
Chula Vista Medic Fifty Two, this is Scripps First Aid Unit Four Hundred and Fifteen.
00:03
Go ahead.
00:05
(name withheld) Mercy Chula Vista Medic Two, (name withheld), acute status medical.
00:09
Looking to go to Scripps Chula Vista, going to be an acute cardiac.
00:14
Want to make sure that Scripps Chula Vista is open for a semi if needed.
00:18
Patient's currently in V Tech.
00:20
Let me know when you are ready to report.
00:23
Scripps Chula Vista is open at this time for sending patients.
00:26
Go ahead.
00:28
Thanks, Mercy Children's Medic Fifty Two arrived on scene to a private residence near H St this evening to find a ninety-three year old male patient lying on the ground.
00:36
Patient is unresponsive to verbal stimuli, able to be stimulated with some pain intermittently.
00:50
Got a GCS of five.
00:55
Story goes, patient was sitting in his chair and fell to the ground when he had a change in mental status.
01:03
Family activated 911.
01:08
Does he have a five in the fall? It's going to make him a major trauma, not a STEMI.
01:20
The family reported a fall out of the patient's walker, maybe one and a half feet off the ground.
01:29
We don't see any outward signs of trauma noted.
01:33
Copy fall plus GCS of five equals a trauma though.
01:40
All right, copy that.
01:52
Patient's currently in VTAC, rates going between 120 to 160 right now.
02:36
For treating on 18 gauge IV in patient, left arm, hanging 150 milligrams of amiodarone and 100 mLs of normal saline.
02:51
We're going to have a four-minute ETA to Scripps Chula Vista.
02:55
If you want to make this cardiac patient a major trauma, it's going to be about 15 to 20 minute ETA to UCSD Hillcrest.
03:14
I guess go to Chula Vista.
03:19
We're going to use Scripps Vista.
03:21
We didn't see any signs of trauma noted and the fall was minimal.
03:26
Think it was more of a syncopal fall due to an underlying cardiac issue.
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Location mentioned:
H St, Chula Vista, CA 91910
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