Elderly woman with severe hip pain transported to hospital, Poway CA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical services responded to a 77-year-old woman near Pomerado Road in Poway. She was experiencing severe pain in her left hip without any reported trauma or falls. Communication was challenging due to a language barrier. The woman was found in a limited mobility position and showed mild arm tremors. Her vital signs were mostly normal, but her blood sugar was elevated. She declined pain medication. She was transported to Pomerado Hospital for further evaluation and care.
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25227905. So I have a 77-year-old female coming from home,
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approximately, say,
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160 pounds.
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She complains of left hip pain.
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So the whole triage process with our dispatch and us on scene was very, very difficult.
00:17
The patient and her husband are Korean speaking only and not very compliant or maybe even for historians with our phone translators.
00:26
So really difficult to get a story out of them.
00:30
When we got there to an apartment, patient was almost like in a yoga pose.
00:34
She was on her hands and knees on a yoga mat in her living room.
00:39
Almost like she was stuck in that position and then just mild tremors in her arms, saying that her left hip was causing her severe discomfort.
00:48
Talking to her more, there are some words that she does understand in English.
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It's just difficult to get any answers from her.
00:54
It sounds like she did not fall or have any known trauma.
00:58
I'm not seeing any signs of trauma either.
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And then it sounds like possibly she started having pain her left hip yesterday and then wasn't able to sleep all night because of the pain.
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And then I believe she's saying that she was walking today and without any trauma while she was walking.
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She felt something happened in her hip that caused her to have severe pain.
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But I went through a bunch of questioning as far as trying to figure out if she felt any popping, snapping.
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crack of this, anything like that, and she said no notes to all of it.
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I'm not seeing any signs of trauma, no obvious deformities for me when I feel.
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She does have tenderness to the left hip upon palpation, and then she's not able to straighten it from, in a supine position, she has her leg upright, and then her knee bent, so almost like a 90 degree above her.
01:56
We have it on top of the bag right now.
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But again, not able to straighten it past that.
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She's able to bend it a little bit more, unable to get a full history out of her.
02:07
But she did say she took Advil yesterday and this morning as well.
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So anyways,
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no other symptoms for what I could get.
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She does not seem confused at all to me.
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Of course, I'm unable to get that.
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Negative stroke scale, either pupils normal.
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No drug or alcohol use.
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Nothing else that I am seeing.
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And as far as vital signs, I have a heart rate of 98 frontal sinus.
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Blood pressure is 151 over 84.
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Currently breathing at 24 and a little rapid, I think, more relating to pain.
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O2Sat is 96.
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And I do have a sugar of 323 as well.
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I'm not seeing any insulin pumps or anything like that.
02:48
Of course, I may a bit of get that information out of her as well.
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As far as treatment goes, I have an 18-gauge L AC, and I was trying to get her some pain meds, but she's adamantly denying, so nothing like that right now.
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And then, again, ETA-2, Pomerado, which they were highly, highly insistent on, is about six minutes.
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How do you copy?
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Location mentioned:
Pomerado Rd, Poway, CA 92064
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