Male patient transferred with head injury and hemorrhage, Buckhannon WV
Medical EmergencyA 70-year-old male fell backwards in his yard near Amalia Dr and struck his head. He was taken to St. Joseph's ER and diagnosed with a subdural hemorrhage. His condition is stable, alert, and oriented. He has no other external trauma. He is being transferred by HealthNet 6 to WVU for further care. He reports mild headache but declined pain medication.
Audio|Source: Upshur County Police, Fire and EMS
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Yes, sir, HealthNet 6 has about an 11-minute ETA to the helipad on this ER-to-EAR transfer from St.
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Joe's. Just wanted to give you guys a quick update on this patient.
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Certain number and we're going to head in the report.
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The third number is WV (number withheld).
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Got a 70-year-old male arrived POV tonight at the St.
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Joseph's ER around 830.
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A patient fell backwards in his yard near Amalia Dr earlier this evening,
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striking his head.
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A patient scanned and diagnosed with a subdural hemorrhage.
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Patient is currently alert and oriented blood pressure 1-3-5 over 7-7.
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Heart rate 92, showing normal sinus rhythm O2 stats on remair, 96%.
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And he has a non-labored breathing pattern of 13, as well as the glucose of 96.
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External trauma from head to toe shows nothing.
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This is all just isolated to the head.
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Station is on an icarperep.
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We have titrated at to 10 milligrams an hour from 7.5 to make sure that he's trying to maintain his blood pressures below 140.
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We are also giving Hans Kepra right now at this time.
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He'll have a total of 2,000 milligrams on board prior to us getting at WVU.
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As I said, he is alert to oriented cooperating well.
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Remember it's the whole entire accident.
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GCS is 4-056.
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His lungs are clear and equal bilaterally in the A.
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The season basis.
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His abdomen is soft and pliable in all quadrants.
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He does show good CMS in all of his extremities.
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He does have bilateral AT gauges at each AC.
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He is complaining of a headache around 2 out of 10 pain.
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We have offered him some pain medicine, including Tylenol, IV, and he has refused that.
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That's a quick update on this patient.
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If you don't have anything further, that'll be the end.
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Location mentioned:
Near Amalia Dr, Buckhannon, WV 26201
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