Elderly woman injured after fall at Independence home, Independence WV
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical services were dispatched to a home near Gladesville Road in Independence, West Virginia, where a 68-year-old woman reported severe back and tailbone pain after a fall that occurred two days earlier. She was conscious and alert but experiencing pain while breathing and dizziness when moving.
Audio|Heard on: Preston WV EMS Dispatch Group Calls
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Transcript:
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Preston call center, station 15, Comm.
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Any available paramedic need to respond for medic injury, post victim of a fall.
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Near Gladesville Road.
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Time first alert 8:25.
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Is he south of company?
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683, you are.
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684, you are at 831.
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You are going to be responding near Gladesville Road.
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Break.
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Good.
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663, you're going to be responding for an.
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Sixty-eight-year-old female.
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She fell Saturday.
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She says she fell.
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When she fell, she hurt her tailbone and her back.
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She's having extreme pain now.
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It hurts to breathe because of the pain.
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She said she does have a bruise.
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She's advising you'll have to go up the steps to her apartment, apartment two.
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She said the door should be open.
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Break.
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Go ahead.
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Let's take 83.
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She was conscious and alert, a little hard of hearing for me to hear her, but I think it's just because of the cell phone service there.
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She wasn't complaining of any new paralysis,
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no bleeding.
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She did feel like she would faint and dizzy when she would try to get up and move.
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She did not advise of any type of medical history either.
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Go ahead.
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That is received.
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Location mentioned:
Gladesville Rd, Independence, WV 26374
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