88-year-old woman falls down steps with back and rib pain

Heard on: Somerset County PA Regional SO CVMH (Hospital)

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Markleysburg Medic Two Hundred and Forty Six ALS Notification, No Command Requested.

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Yeah, I have a report.

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Calling all, I am in about your facility with an eighty-eight eighty-eight female patient who had a fall approximately five steps backwards.

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Patient is complaining of back pain and right-sided rib pain.

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Patient is conscious, alert, oriented to her normal status.

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She is a normal sinus on my monitor with a rate of seventy-two.

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Blood glucose 100 and twenty-five, blood pressure 117 over sixty-three.

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Patient was initially batting in the upper eighties.

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Could hear some crepitus on that.

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At right side, pain on inspiration.

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Put patient on four liters, decreased her down to two liters, and she is sitting well at ninety-eight percent.

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I just want to get established in the left AC with normal saline running.

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Our patient is also on aspirin and eliquis.

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We'll see you here in approximately 12 min .

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Would you like any further?

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Received, we'll see you when you get here.

2026-10-06 13:28 UTC

Medical Emergency

Haida Ave, Hastings, PA 16646

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As discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical crews report an elderly woman who fell backward down several steps and is being transported to a hospital with back and rib pain.