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In the regional, we're about 10 min out from your facility.
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An eighty-five-year-old female,
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eighty-five-year-old female coming from Miller's Merry Manor in Garrett.
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We were called out today, altered mental status.
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Family thinks that patient has a UTI.
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She does have history of frequent UTI.
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She does have slurred speech, a little bit of facial droop on the left side, and some hardly noticeable weakness on the left side.
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But not like an obvious, be fast positive, except for the slurred speech.
00:32
The daughter who was on scene said that that is also normal for her UTIs.
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So she's alert and oriented times two.
00:44
Heart rate right now is sixty-eight, sixty-eight.
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Blood pressure is 160 over seventy-five, 160 over seventy-five.
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She's ninety-six percent on two liters.
00:54
Got a twenty-eight in her blood sugar is 100 and forty-six.
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One hundred and forty-six.
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She has not had any recent falls or any trauma, and she does not take a blood thinner.
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Unless anything further, we'll see you in about ten.
01:09
So out of the slurred speech, facial droop, and left-sided weakness, what of that is normal for the patient and what isn't?
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It is normal at baseline, but daughter says that sometimes she will slur her speech a little bit when she has a UTI.
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She says she's had five in the last couple months.
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Nothing further, regional clear.
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