Elderly woman with dementia injured leg in apartment, Bethesda MD
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Medical EmergencyAccording to the dispatch call, an elderly woman with dementia was found on the floor in her apartment with a dislocated left knee and leg deformity. She has minimal pain and her leg was splinted before transport to Suburban Hospital.
Audio|Heard on: Montgomery MD Hospital Group Calls
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Suburbanismatics 723 currently arrives you with an 84, 84-year-old female.
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Priority 2 Category D trauma.
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Patient does have dementia, so it doesn't know when this will occur.
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The caretaker came to her apartment and found her on the floor.
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It appears to be an isolated injury.
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I've only found an injury to the left leg.
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There's an obvious dislocation of the patella, and there's an inward rotation of the foot.
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The hip seems intact and stable, however,
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there is pain above the knee in the femur area and there's obvious deformity.
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She's in a...
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really minimal amount of pain when there's no movement to the leg.
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We do have it splinted.
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Last on vitals, heart rate of 82.024% last blood pressure was 146 over 83.
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GCS is 15,
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although she's non-English speaking, but the caretaker says her baseline is dementia, so she's unable to determine a lot of the questions were asking her, like, how long she was on the floor.
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It doesn't appear to be that long.
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Again, priority two, we have about a 10 to 15-minute ETA.
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Location mentioned:
Old Georgetown Rd, Bethesda, MD 20814
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