Elderly woman hospitalized after head injury, Orlando FL
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According to the dispatch call, emergency responders transported an 86-year-old woman to Orlando Regional Medical Center after she suffered a head injury and altered mental status from a fall at a residence near W Underwood St in Orlando.
Audio|Heard on: Orange FL Hospital Group Calls
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Transcript:
00:00
This is Rescue 27 en route to Orlando Regional Medical Center with a trauma alert.
00:04
How copy?
00:06
Go ahead.
00:09
This is Rescue 27 en route to your facility with an 86-year-old female patient.
00:16
Chief complaint is altered mental status following a head injury.
00:21
Patient fell coming off of the bathroom.
00:25
Had a fall with a two-inch deep head laceration.
00:31
No deformity.
00:32
Or crepitus, anything like that.
00:35
But part of the skull is exposed right now.
00:38
She is altered according to staff with a foundation of dementia, but she is more altered than normal.
00:47
Right now she is at AFIB RVR rhythm somewhere between 140 and 160.
00:54
Other vitals are as follows.
00:57
TCO2 is at 20 right now, saturation is at 96 on 2 liters.
01:04
Her last blood pressure we got was 130 over 97.
01:09
This is Rescue 27 again.
01:12
We have a 20 gauge IV in the right AC with 500 mL bag of 0.9% saline solution.
01:23
We’ll be en route to your facility right now within two minutes to require anything further.
01:29
Can you just repeat patient’s current GCS?
01:34
Patient’s current GCS is going to be 11.
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Location mentioned:
W Underwood St, Orlando, FL 32806
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