70-year-old man airlifted with head injury after fall, Charlottesville VA
Medical EmergencyA 70-year-old man fell down stairs carrying a bucket and hit his head on a concrete wall. He has a head injury with bleeding and was taken to a hospital for evaluation. He is conscious and stable but has a large bruise over his eye and nosebleed.
Audio|Source: UVA Helicopter Dispatch
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Medcom, AirCare 5. AirCare 5. Air Care 5, Metcom, go ahead. Interpacility transfer, 70-year-old mail for Rockingham to you guys. We are 11 minutes out right now, checking the status of pad and stand by for a third year. East Helipad, no report of traffic in the area.
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Stand by for third year, 1734. Program 4-year, 1734. There's here, Bob, about nine minutes now from rooftop, probably about 13 minutes, we're in probably a 17-minute, probably a 70-year-old male.
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Stand about one second. All right, sorry about that, seven-year-old mail around. Two o'clock today he was trying to walk carry a heavy bucket of water down some steps. Got to about the five or six steps for the bottom when he somehow lost his balance and ended up falling forward down those last five steps striking the left side of his head against a concrete wall. There was no loss of consciousness if he was abused.
01:25
found by family members. He was oriented the whole time, only really complaining of a hand injury, but he does have a pretty good size hematoma over his left eye and from bleeding bleed from his nose. He's taken to RMH where he has got a subjural hematoma being transferred to you guys for evaluation. He is on telequist. He was recently had another head bleed about five months ago.
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also a patient at UBA. Current set of vitals, given to the GCS, but actually GED and answered questions appropriately, moving all extremities, no deficit, certain up. Current vitals, 172 over 80, heart rate at 72, EGP is the sinus rhythm, restoration 20, setting 95% of room air. We did start you on Cardine. Right now is on Cardi 85 for that hypertension. We're going to try to get him below 160.
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