Elderly man falls and sustains head laceration in Summerville, Summerville SC
Medical EmergencyEmergency medical services responded to a 96-year-old man who fell near Westcott Boulevard in Summerville. He sustained a laceration to the back of his head. The patient was alert, stable, and was being transported for further evaluation. He did not lose consciousness or feel dizzy. He is a dialysis patient and had missed his dialysis appointment today. Vital signs showed elevated blood pressure and a low heart rate. No personal names or specific address numbers are mentioned for privacy.
Audio|Source: Dorchester County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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EMD in progress near Westcott Boulevard.
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Summerville Medd.
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Summerville Medit.
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Doorkess for Medicaid?
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Hi, I'm (name withheld), 8.
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I'm en route to your facility, 96-year-old male patient.
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Chief complaint is going to be a laceration to the back of the head.
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Secondary to a fall.
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How do you copy?
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Patient was up this morning putting on his shoes, about to go to dialysis, fell backwards, hit his head.
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Negative only dizziness, loss of consciousness,
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GCS of 15 is hard of hearing.
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A patient also is a dialysis patient.
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He did not make that appointment today.
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Patients are negative only blood thinners.
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We're going to come down and get his head evaluated his vitals as follows.
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We have a heart rate of 50 feet per minute, that's 5.0 beats per minute.
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Blood pressure is 186 over 63 with a history of hypertension.
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Restoration is going to go with 16 non-labored.
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O2 sat at 97% on remare.
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We did not get an oral tip on you, but we did get a VGL of 1-50.
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We should be seeing you guys in about 10 minutes.
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Any questions or orders?
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No questions, Otis.
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We get here.
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Thanks, I'm all.
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Norges, very clear.
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Control, medic, five.
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Code five.
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We have no signal of the radio out here to get to call us in.
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I'm trying to encode to them that we're coming to doing with a code d'urro that's going to need a flight down to MSC.
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Would you be able to give them a call to give them a heads up that were about 10 to 12 minutes out from them?
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Copy.
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