Elderly man hospitalized after seizure, National City CA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical personnel responded to a home near E 4th St in National City, where a 78-year-old man with a history of dementia and seizures experienced a seizure lasting about two minutes. He was found stable and alert at his baseline. The patient had recent episodes of diarrhea and decreased appetite. He received IV fluids for dehydration and was transported to Paradise Valley Hospital for further care.
Audio|Heard on: San Diego CA Hospital Group Calls
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Transcript:
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I'm heading to Paradise.
00:01
I got about a three-minute ETA of a 78-year-old male complaint is going to be seizure.
00:08
I got a run for you of (number withheld).
00:13
Three, let me know.
00:14
All right, full report.
00:16
Where's the copy? Two (number withheld).
00:20
That's actually good with your part.
00:23
That is correct.
00:24
So story goes, I responded over to prior incidents for our seventy-eight-year-old male here.
00:28
Sounds like he lives at home with his family.
00:30
He is bed bound with a severe history of dementia times one at baseline.
00:35
It sounds like family noticed our patient here started to have a seizure, tonic clonic seizure.
00:41
Something about one to two minutes.
00:43
They went ahead and called 911.
00:45
Our patient here does have a history of seizures.
00:47
He takes seizure medications, and family says that he has been pretty compliant with them.
00:56
But the one abnormality that I've noticed over the last couple days is that he's been experiencing excessive diarrhea.
01:01
No blood noted in that.
01:03
It's kind of like failure to thrive signs symptoms.
01:05
They're not really eating or drinking.
01:07
He does have it G two, but it doesn't sound like he really was.
01:10
Wants to kind of get up and move around as he normally does.
01:13
Family says he's acting at baseline.
01:15
We didn't see any sort of postictal state on our arrival.
01:19
Vital signs are going to be as follows.
01:20
He's A and O times one at baseline.
01:22
He's breathing 24 times, full and effective.
01:25
He's satting at 100% on two liters and that's his normal O2.
01:31
He's got a blood pressure of 148 over 83 and a pulse rate of 110 sinus tach on my monitor.
01:38
Blood sugar 119, and temperature 98.9.
01:44
I have his extensive medical history, including a stroke with deficit on his left.
01:51
Currently now as it's treatment, I have him in position of comfort and I am looking for his ride to Paradise Valley Hospital.
01:56
I have a 20 gauge AB in the left right hand.
01:59
Giving a 500 bolus for volume depletion.
02:01
Is there anything else I can get for your clarify?
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Location mentioned:
E 4th St, National City, CA 91950
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