Elderly woman falls twice, hits head, loses vision
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Preston County WV Regional EMS Dispatch
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Preston Com Center, Station Eleven, Terra Alta, need to respond.
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Traumatic injury victim of a fall, (number withheld) Oak Flat Road, Mason Township.
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Alert 1133 .
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Six eight eight acknowledged.
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Six eight eight, that's received.
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Preston Com Center, 688 en route.
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Six hundred and eighty-eight, you are going to be in route to (number withheld) Oak Flat Road.
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Eleven thirty-six break.
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Go ahead, ma'am.
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Six hundred and eighty-eight, you are going to be in route for a ninety-four year old female.
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They're advising that she fell yesterday.
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She possibly had LOC yesterday.
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Break.
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Six hundred and eighty-eight callers advising that she went to the store.
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When she came back, she's advising that she found her mother.
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She fell again.
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They're advising they think maybe 15 to 20 min ago.
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She's advising that she hit the back of her head, fell on her back.
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They're advising that she was dizzy when she sat her up, and now she's advising that she can't see.
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I am still getting further.
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That's received.
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Preston County Station Eleven, Terra Alta, need to respond.
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Traumatic injury, victim of a fall,
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(number withheld) Sanders Street in Terra Alta.
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Time of alert eleven thirty-nine.
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Call center 600 and
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eighty-eight. Go ahead, ma'am.
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Six hundred and eighty-eight.
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They're advising that she has a pacemaker.
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She's in constant AFIB.
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They're advising that one of her medications could possibly be making the AFIB worse.
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Break.
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Go ahead.
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They're advising lack of circulation in both legs, infection in the right foot, cellulitis in the left leg.
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They're advising that when they brought her home yesterday, that the patient wasn't able to stand.
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They're advising that she does have issues with her left shoulder.
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The ball and the socket are deformed.
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Unknown if she injured it when she fell.
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That's received.
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688.
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688.
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Is it going to be the driveway immediately to our left or did we pass the driveway?
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686, come center, show us around.
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Six hundred and eighty-six, you are on route eleven forty-two.
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Stand by for size up.
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Six hundred and eighty-eight, you passed the driveway.
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It's going to be the driveway behind you, and it's going to be the 2nd house.
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That's received.
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Thank you.
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Correction, 600 and eighty-eight.
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Correction, 600 and eighty-six.
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Six.
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Six eight six, you're en route to (number withheld) Sanders Street in Terra Alta.
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It's going to be for a sixty-seven year old male.
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Call came in through the VA home health nurse, advising that the patient had a syncopal episode Saturday, where he fell into the window and fell out of the window of his home.
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Right?
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Good.
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Six eight six caller is feeling dizzy today with a headache and rib pain.
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All this is post traumatic injury from the fall that he took on Saturday.
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Patient advised that the caller advised that the patient does have a history of altered mental status and syncope episodes.
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Break.
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That is the only history on the patient that the caller had was the syncopal episode.
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Go ahead.
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I'm sorry,
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you can show 688 on scene.
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688 on scene, 1144.
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