Man stabbed multiple times in Charlottesville area, Charlottesville VA
AssaultA 38-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in the left chest and left lower abdomen with a likely shank or screwdriver near Charlottesville, Virginia. He is stable and being airlifted to UVA Hospital for treatment.
Audio|Source: UVA Helicopter Dispatch
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Transcript:
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Don't trauma alert.
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38 year old male, multiple stab wounds with a probably a shank or screwdriver to the left chest and left upper quadrant.
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Human damage to be enabled this time to consent us a pad, wait for a third year.
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So you're going to be lighting on the East Tallopad, the East Tallopad, no reports of any coming to indoor accident traffic, standoff with additional personnel.
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Here, this is UVA, you can go ahead.
00:38
Hey, this is UVA.
00:39
Air Care 5 with about, oh, I don't know, about 11 minutes from a rooftop, probably will bring us about 15 minutes. We'll probably bring you a 30, 30-year-old male if we believe in around 8 o'clock this point.
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We've got into something about altercation.
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He's not disclosing a lot of information.
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Even at multiple wounds left up the chest,
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most of the wounds appear to be all within like a 3-inch diameter right at the left chest mid-axillary line.
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We do have it covered with occlusive dressings with the ability to vent.
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He does have breath sounds on that left side, though they are diminished in the lower left. Even dynamically, he is stable.
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Heart rate is a sinus rhythm of 67.
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Blood pressure is a little bit hypertensive of 176 over 114.
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Pressure ratio are 27. He's 97% on 4 liters of oxygen. We've got him sitting upright and that seems to be helping.
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Also, to note, he's got another stab wound to the left lower quadrant area,
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left flank, certainly concerned about possible retroperitoneal bleed there, but clinically looking good.
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No medical history.
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He's not telling us a lot of information. EMS believes it might have been a screwdriver or some type of small shank.
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He says he was stabbed.
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He does not report being shot.
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Neurologically, he's moving everything, no deficit or anything like that. We're rating on GCS at 15.
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A little bit of fluid, a little bit of pain medicine, we'll see what he gets there.
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Would you be able to repeat the injuries to the chest wall? Sorry, you cut out then?
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Yes, sir.
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So it's the left chest, about mid-chest between top and bottom.
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It is in a left axillary location.
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There's what we reported as three stab wounds.
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They're all within like a three-inch diameter circle of each other.
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One of them, they said they felt like they could see all the way into the chest.
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The other two they felt might have been more superficial.
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All three are covered with occlusive dressing with the ability to vent as necessary.
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Charlottesville, VA
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