EMS responds to elderly woman with altered mental status, Asheville NC
Medical EmergencyEmergency medical services responded to a 69-year-old woman at home who was experiencing altered mental status and low blood pressure. The family reported she had been falling frequently and acting abnormally that morning. Medical personnel started intravenous fluids and noted heart complications during transport to the hospital.
Audio|Source: Polk County Sheriff, Fire, and EMS
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This is Medics who has become the emergency traffic with a 6-9, 69-year-old female coming from home.
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She's a complex going to be altered mental status and hypotension.
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Family reports the patient's been falling a lot recently.
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Reports that this morning she's not acting right, but this time is altered.
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The initial blood pressure was 51 over 21.
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I did start a 20 IV in the left hand.
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I should have fluid running at this time.
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At this time, What rate is 76.
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She's showing atrial fibrillation with a right bundle branch block.
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I'm unable to get any kind of false logs reading on her, but in total CO2 is nine.
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My blood pressure I have is 148 over 94.
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Near Biltmore Ave, Asheville, NC 28801
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