Stroke alert for male with increased left-sided weakness
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Marion County IN 49M-M13 (Hospital)
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This is 935, about 5 min out of stroke alert.
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Copy.
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Copy clear.
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Yeah, 5 min out.
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I have a 66, 66 year old male coming to our home.
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Past history of stroke with some residual left-sided weakness.
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He fainted around 2100 this evening.
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He went to go get up off the couch, noticed that he was not.
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Not able to, which is abnormal for him, and he's having more difficulty than usual moving his left face.
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Along with that, he also started to experience numbness and tingling, generalized to his left side.
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As well as some blurred vision from that left eye, which is abnormal.
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For us, his blood pressure is normal.
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We didn't see the arm drift, no facial droop, and his speech is normal.
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Primarily just the sensation and then the increased weakness on that left side.
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Initially, pressure was pretty high.
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She said it seems to solid.
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The last one that we have currently is 100 and eighty-three over 100 and thirty-one.
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He is updated with the anti-hypertensive.
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He's feeling good this
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morning.
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Seventy-three is his heart rate.
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He's lying on the monitor.
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He is ninety-six percent on room air.
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Do you guys have 15 ? Dex is ninety-nine.
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Got a 20 gauge at the right AC.
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If you guys need anything else, we will see you here in about 3 min .
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Yeah.
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So he had a previous CVA with left-sided deficits, and he's completing of increased left-sided weakness.
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Is that right?
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Affirmative.
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Typically, he is able to get up and ambulate with his walker.
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However, he states that when he got up, tried to get off the couch, he is kind of just dragging his left leg, which is abnormal.
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He reports that it's weaker than normal, as well as the onset of numbness to the left side, and then the vision changes.
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Okay, we'll see you later.
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Thanks.
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