Elderly woman injured in fall at Wilmington home, Wilmington DE
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency responders in Wilmington aided a 77-year-old woman who suffered a fall at her home near W 14th St. She was found face down with an open skull fracture and shoulder injury. Bleeding was controlled, and she was transported to a hospital for trauma evaluation.
Audio|Heard on: New Castle DE Hospital Group Calls
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01:59
Transcript:
00:00
Good evening, this is BLS Unit 813 and a Rochester facility with a seventy-seven-year-old female.
00:06
Looking for a trauma evaluation, depending on what you think it might be an alert.
00:11
Take copy.
00:13
Okay, go ahead.
00:15
That's your facility, seventy-seven-year-old female.
00:20
(Name withheld) reports her mother took a fall this evening.
00:23
Found her face first on hardwood floors.
00:27
She said she didn't see the fall, but she did hear her mother scream.
00:31
Upon our arrival, we found the patient face down on a hardwood floor in a small puddle of blood around her face.
00:38
Upon our assessment, we find what appears to be an open skull fracture, approximately half an inch to one inch in diameter.
00:47
Bleeding is controlled, we do have her bandaged up and in a collar.
00:52
She is alert oriented times four.
00:54
She did say she got up too fast and fell, she didn't get dizzy or anything.
01:02
As of now, her vitals are 99% over a mare with a heart rate of 63, and blood pressure, 72 over palp.
01:10
She doesn't have a history of any low blood pressure, which is concerning to me.
01:15
She does have severe pain in her right shoulder that we have in a sling now.
01:20
No other outward signs of trauma.
01:22
We're approximately five to ten minutes out from your facility, standing by for any questions or concerns.
01:29
The only medication she's on is aspirin, but no anticoagulants or anything like that.
01:35
Copy, so you're saying she's hypotensive after a fall, I think that would be a trauma code.
01:40
Again, that would be a trauma code.
01:42
Stand by for a room.
01:44
Steve.
01:46
With 3.8 minutes.
01:47
We're going to go to room 4 on arrival.
01:49
ETA is approximately 3 to 5 minutes.
01:53
Hi, you're going to be pre-announced trauma code.
01:56
We're going to go to room four.
01:57
This is dot number (number withheld).
01:58
That's (number withheld).
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Location mentioned:
W 14th St, Wilmington, DE 19801
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