Elderly woman found with arm injury after fall in apartment, Boonville MO
Medical EmergencyAn elderly woman fell in her apartment near 1st Street and sustained a skin tear on her arm that bled for several hours before she could call for help. She was alert when found and the bleeding was controlled upon emergency response arrival.
Audio|Source: Cooper County Police, Fire, and EMS
03:25
Transcript:
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Fire, stand back to tone,
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See an apartment,
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Fall patient.
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Cooper County Medic, Booneville Fire,
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Respond, near 1st Street, apartment,
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Apartment 101,
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Full patient,
00:36
Elderly female, bleeding from arm, (number withheld).
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Brown.
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Roby.
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Gabby. Cabot.
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Cabot.
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To responding, knowledge zero.
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The tact to respond, near First Street, Apartment 101, Selwyn apartment,
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For an elderly female fall patient bleeding from arm, unknown portion of her arm.
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RP states the patient was busy and fell from standing.
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The RP is not on scene.
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The patient cannot call on.
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911 herself.
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RP stated the patient seemed alert (number withheld).
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Rescue 110 respond,
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Respond, near 1st Street, Apartment 101, Soan Apartments, for an elderly female fall patient.
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She's bleeding from an unknown portion of her arm.
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RP states the patient was busy and fell from standing.
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Patient could not dial 911 herself.
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RP is not on scene.
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RP stated the patient seems alert.
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20 cents.
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You just let the medics know, she's actually been on the floor for several hours.
02:32
She was able to scoot from the living room all the way to her bedroom to make the call.
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I don't know if that means anything.
02:41
Let's see if the ERP, he was calling from Boone County, she said she was bleeding heavy amounts from the arm.
02:47
Can you give us an update on that?
02:50
It looks to be a skin tear.
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There's blood evidence, evident that she's been bleeding for a couple hours, but it's not excruciating or anything.
02:59
I think it's able to be managed.
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She's arrived.
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She's arrived.
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Copy.
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The skin tear to the arm's slow, liberative bleeding seems controlled.
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One hand, copy.
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Location mentioned:
Near 1st St, Boonville, MO 65233
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