79-year-old man with weakness and inability to walk
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Berkeley County WV Regional WVU Med E (Hospital)
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Every minute, Company 41 on ESO and route to Grant Memorial.
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Probably about a 10-minute ETA.
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My shirt number is 083265.
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I've already called them and given them a report.
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Am I clear to copy?
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And do you have a report?
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A 79-year-old male.
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Yesterday he started, became very weak, had trouble walking.
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Yesterday had a couple falls, no injuries.
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No loss of consciousness from that.
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Woke up this morning and he just couldn't even get out of bed, could barely walk all day, and at this time he can't walk at all or even stand.
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He was running a fever earlier, no fever now.
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He's alert and oriented.
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I'm going to give him a 446.
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He does have a disoriented patient at some time, so the most part he's alert and oriented.
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Allergies: He has two blood thinners,
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Eliquis and Plavix, for AFib, and he's had open heart surgery.
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He has some kind of kidney disease going on right now.
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Hypertension, he is a diabetic.
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Lung sounds are clear, no go bilateral.
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No chest pains, no shortness of breath.
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Skin is pink, warm, and dry.
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No pedal edema.
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He's also been running a hypotensive.
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He doesn't know what his normal is.
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His
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last blood pressure was ninety-five over fifty-four.
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Originally on scene, it was eighty-eight over fifty-two.
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Heart rate of eighty-eight.
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He checked his blood sugar with his monitor; was 100 and ninety-three.
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Contaminated at ninety-nine .8 .
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Respirations are 16 and non-labored.
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Sat in about ninety-three percent on room air.
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I did put him on a couple liters of oxygen by.
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End tidal nasal cannula, and he's sitting at ninety-eight, ninety-nine percent, and his end tidal is running about twenty-eight.
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I am not requesting any orders.
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