Cancer patient reported not alert during phone call, Des Moines IA


Dispatch audio for a medical call in Des Moines. Crews are told to respond near Mari for a 63-year-old male cancer patient who sounded not very alert while on the phone with a family member. Police are said to be accompanying EMS for a welfare check.
Audio|Source: Des Moines Fire/EMS
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Transcript:
Medics, 6-engine 2. You're going to near Mari on a sick person. It sounds like PD's rolling with you. I think it may be more like a welfare check situation. It's going to be a 63-year-old male. He has a cancer patient. Sounds like he was on the phone with a family member. He advised he didn't sound very alert. It's too much.
Medics, 6-engine 2. You're going to near Mari on a sick person. It sounds like PD's rolling with you. I think it may be more like a welfare check situation. It's going to be a 63-year-old male. He has a cancer patient. Sounds like he was on the phone with a family member. He advised he didn't sound very alert. It's too much.
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Des Moines, IA
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