Man found with stroke symptoms after fall at Waterloo, Waterloo IA
Medical EmergencyA 75-year-old man fell near Inkingney Street in Waterloo and showed stroke symptoms including slurred speech and weakness on his left side. Emergency responders are on the scene providing medical assistance.
Audio|Source: Waterloo-Cedar Falls Public Safety
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Transcript:
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You're going code 1 near Inkingney Street, Cresor, Quincy, and Newell.
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There's a 75-year-old male there who fell unknown downtime.
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Copy-2-A. 4242.
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264.30,
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Barry.
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Covered, September 34.
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331, working with a conscious and alert,
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oriented 75, 75-year-old male.
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We're a call-off for a fall for a fall today. A patient is experiencing some stroke-like symptoms. He's got left-sided gaze and left-sided weakness affecting his arm and his leg.
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Speech is kind of slurred at this point, too.
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He is a pretty significant cardiac history, things like that. We're working on getting a 12-ling established. We are getting ID access also. Current to the vitals I have for you.
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I've got a pulse of 90.
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Blood pressure is 180 over 98.
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He's 98% on room air.
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We're going to work for our glucose here once we get this IB stick.
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We're going to be there in about 3 to 5 minutes. I'm going to get you anything further.
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Do you know the onset of symptoms for him?
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Negative. He said about 1 p.m. is when he noticed his weakness.
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He does live alone.
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Family last pass that with him was last night. They were trying to get a hold of him at about 1.15 in the afternoon.
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And I'm not going to make contact. That's what they came over here.
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10.4 will be your room on arrival.
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Ten, four, thanks, Alex.
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