Woman showing left arm weakness after possible stroke
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San Diego County CA ALS TRI (Hospital)
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Tri-City again, Medic 212, CADs 2026, 121556, 121556.
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Calling to see, basically if you guys want to run this patient as a stroke code.
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71 year old male, I'm sorry, 71 year old female, mild status medical.
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ETA to you guys is going to be 12 min .
00:24
So story goes, last known well time for my patient was Thursday night, so two nights ago.
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Patient went to bed when she woke up in the morning.
00:40
She had increased left arm weakness and increased for decreased left hand grip.
00:49
All other stroke symptoms are negative.
00:51
So right now it's only.
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Left arm. So on a fast PD, it's one right now, just for some left arm drift against gravity.
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She has a history of strokes.
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No known deficits from those.
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As far as vitals go, patient is breathing 18, full and effective, sitting at 100% on room air.
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Eyes are open, pupil three.
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She is A and O three.
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Able to move three extremities.
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That left arm, she's able to lift it a little bit and hold it steady, but it's very weak against gravity right now.
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And like I said, decrease.
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Wrist on that left hand.
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Heart rate of 90, normal sinus.
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Blood pressure of 200 over 80, 200 over 80,
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and a blood sugar of 109.
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She is on no thinners, she does not take blood thinners.
01:52
Gonna look for an IV.
01:54
Like I said, just wanted to see if you.
01:56
You guys wanted to run that as a stroke just because she is far outside of the window.
02:02
Alright, 02:12 .
02:03
Thank you for report.
02:04
Just have a couple questions.
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I want to clarify her age.
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Seventy-one, seven-one.
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That's what I heard.
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And also, when did she wake up with these symptoms? Was it a few minutes ago? Was it earlier tonight? Well, about what time did she wake up?
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Correct, she is seventy-one years old, seven-one.
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And last known well was Thursday, so two nights ago.
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She.
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Woke up during the night two nights ago with these symptoms.
02:37
Copy to clarify, she has had these symptoms for two nights and for like over 24 h for 36 , almost 48 h .
02:47
Is that correct?
02:49
Correct.
02:51
Copy that.
02:53
It doesn't sound like we would.
02:55
I'm going to run it by the doc and see what she wants to do because sometimes she might make an exception and I'll be right with you.
03:02
Okay. Okay, city to 212.
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Over 212.
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I spoke with Dr.
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(name withheld). As I expected, she said we will not run a stroke code because these symptoms did appear sounds like suddenly Thursday night.
03:19
And what was your ETA at this time?
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ETA is about 5 min .
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Copy, we'll clear at oh 05:40 .
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