Elderly woman falls from bed with prior neck injury

Heard on: Preston WV EMS Dispatch Group Calls

01:25

00:00

Medic 600 and eighty-eight, you are on route 510 .

00:01

You are going to be en route to (number withheld) Crooked Stump Road.

00:03

Go ahead.

00:07

Medic 688, you're going to be en route for a 73-year-old female.

00:10

Caller was advising that his wife fell approximately 2 ft out of bed.

00:15

He said he wasn't able to get her up at all.Every time he tries to help her, she cries and yells out in pain.

00:21

Break.

00:23

Go ahead.

00:25

688.

00:26

He did advise that she fell out of bed in June of '26 and she came home from the hospital.

00:35

July of 20 , July 22nd .

00:38

He said when she fell at that point, she did break her neck.

00:41

They did use her spinal cord in two different places with this fall break.

00:51

You got it.

00:54

Medic 688.

00:55

He advised that when she rolled out of bed, her arm was caught in the rails of a hospital bed that she's sleeping.

01:01

He did remove the rail to try to help get.

01:03

Her to the floor because she was crying out in pain.

01:06

She is alert, able to talk, breathing normal.

01:09

No new paralysis, but she's complaining of pain.

01:13

Good.

01:15

Medic 600 and eighty-eight, he did advise that she's not been able to roll over, so he's not real sure how she fell out of bed.

01:24

Good.

9/4/2026 02:10 AM

Medical Emergency

Crooked Stump Rd, Terra Alta, WV 26764

Elderly woman falls from bed with prior neck injury

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