82-year-old woman develops severe hip-back pain after cough
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Preston County WV Regional EMS Dispatch
02:24
00:00
Preston County Station 15 , can you respond? Emergency call, sick person, (number withheld) Campground Road, Thompsontown, alert 19 fifty-eight.
00:10
Six hundred and eighty-two, out.
00:11
This is your route, and this is your route to (number withheld) Campground Road.
00:16
Break.
00:18
Go ahead.
00:20
This is your route for an 82 year old female.
00:23
Caller advised she just got her mother home from Kingwood Healthcare today.
00:26
Advised she was doing better.
00:28
Break.
00:30
Go ahead.
00:31
Two fifty-two.
00:32
Caller advising her mother was eating granola crackers approximately 1700 .
00:36
About she started to cough.
00:38
After she did that, felt like she pulled something in her left side.
00:41
She said now she's holding her hip towards her back, but more on her hip.
00:47
But does not feel like she is choking.
00:50
I am speaking further.
00:52
Yep, thanks, Kelly.
00:54
Call center, we're clear from our meeting and heading back up the mountain.
00:59
Six eight six, copy.
01:02
Call center, 688 .
01:04
Six eight eight, go ahead.
01:08
Yes, sir, we're back in station on the east side.
01:10
Break.
01:12
Six eight eight, go ahead.
01:16
Do you see our AVL in station?
01:19
Six eight eight, negative.
01:23
Okay, I just see if we're trying to mess with us here.
01:26
688 copy, 2004.
01:30
Officer 682.
01:32
Good.
01:34
682 caller advised some other ones to the hospital August 23rd.
01:38
Advised they found compression fractures,
01:39
compression fractures in her T8.
01:42
Advised she was in the hospital for a little while.
01:45
Then they moved her to Kingwood Healthcare December 16th.
01:47
Break.
01:49
Good.
01:51
Today, moved her there due to pain in her arm and her back.
01:54
Advising that when she was eating his gran crackers today, and she started coughing, that's when the pain started.
02:04
Advising that she did eat dinner later, when she got to use the restroom, the pain got worse and she couldn't move.
02:11
However, she did give her mother one Tylenol, 650 mg , approximately 1930 .
02:19
Also gave her.
02:21
Half a flexeral, 2.5 mg , around 1940 .