68-year-old woman seeks evaluation for chronic back pain after fall

Heard on: Waterloo-Cedar Falls Public Safety

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Thirty-one is en route with a conscious, alert, and oriented sixty-eight-year-old female patient who had a fall yesterday.

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Was able to get back up to her bedroom with help from her son.

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Today she's shaky and having some pain in her back.

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She states the pain is chronic, but wants to come and be checked out.

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Patient recently was discharged from the Rose, which is a nursing home, and sent home due to insurance complications.

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Has not been able to get her medications or anything for two weeks.

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Kind of believe that might be.

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Be the major issue here.

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Current set of vitals are as follows: blood pressure 160 over fifty-two, pulse of 118 , respirations are 16 , and she's ninety-four percent SpO2 on room air.

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Other than the chronic back pain, she doesn't have any complaints at this point.

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Coming to you with Traer with an ETA of 2 min out.

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Is there anything further I can get? Yeah.

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Negative, head on arrival.

2026-10-13 19:41 UTC

Medical Emergency

Unity Pt Wy, Marshalltown, IA 50158

68-year-old woman seeks evaluation for chronic back pain after fall

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As discussed during the dispatch call, eMS is transporting a conscious elderly woman to a hospital in Marshalltown after she reportedly fell the previous day and is now shaky with chronic back pain. She has not been able to get her medications for about two weeks and is being evaluated for the fall and pain.

68-year-old woman seeks evaluation for chronic back pain after fall

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