Man assaulted with pipe in Iowa City, Iowa City IA
A 67-year-old man was assaulted with a pipe in Iowa City. He has facial bruising and swelling and is being taken to the University of Iowa Hospital. Communication was difficult due to a language barrier. The man has limited responsiveness.
Audio|Source: Johnson County Fire/EMS
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Transcript:
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University of Iowa, ETC from Lifeguard, incoming patient care report.
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Go ahead with report.
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The university.
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Good evening, University.
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We are inbound your location from a scene.
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This is going to be a 67-year-old.
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He was assaulted with a pipe roughly at 1845 this evening.
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The advisor is a language barrier.
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Primary language will be Swahili.
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That has limited our ability to give you an accurate GCS.
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The best description I can give you is he will open his eyes to noxious stimulus.
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Our verbal commands as well as following instructions.
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Current vitals for you are rate of 100, minus and major.
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A lot of pressure of 158 over 930, and ties up 46, batting 98% on 2 liters by minutes, correction by 2 minutes.
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We're looking at about an 8-minute ETA to your pad, and currently the only injury he's demonstrating
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is bruising and swelling facially.
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Any questions or orders? Thank you, can you repeat?
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pulse and he said eight minute EPA.
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Yes, eight-minute ETA is correct, and our current heart rate right now is sitting at about 90.
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That is sinus at nature.
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Thank you. See you in eight minutes.
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Iowa City, IA 52242
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