Elderly man injured by fallen dresser at home, Newark DE
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, an elderly man was found injured at home after a dresser fell on him. He has broken bones in his jaw, ribs, and arm, with swelling and risk to his airway. Medical teams prepared for his arrival at the hospital for trauma care.
Audio|Heard on: New Castle DE Hospital Group Calls
Listen to dispatch call
02:19
Transcript:
00:00
Medicate on C-E-R-5.
00:04
Christiana, go ahead.
00:07
Christiana, this is all of Medigate coming to you with an 87-year-old male looking for a trauma code.
00:13
Approximately 20-minute ETA.
00:15
How do you call you?
00:17
Comment on 20 minutes.
00:19
Go.
00:21
80s, young-year-old male, history of dementia.
00:24
He's last seen talking, acting normally on Thursday by neighbors.
00:29
He went out for a drive, came home, sometimes Thursday afternoon.
00:32
They have not seen him since.
00:33
They came in today to do a wellness check, found him on the floor of his upstairs bedroom with a dresser that had fallen on top of him.
00:41
I have a jaw is displaced to the left.
00:44
He has been swelling to the left with his kind of hematoma on the back of his head.
00:48
But lung sounds just clear and equal at the same.
00:50
Time he does have some severe like indentation on the right side of his ribs and his right hip pelvis does feel stable at this time.
01:00
I have some deformities of the right arm and swelling in the right hand.
01:04
Again, lung sounds were clear at this time.
01:07
He's patting at 99% on two liters, nasal cannula, pressure of 174 for 86, heart rate is 102 sinus attack.
01:15
He's not a hundred.
01:18
Under the fentanyl IV on board for pain right now.
01:21
Given author and Michael's out, if he's making sounds, usually he is able to speak.
01:26
Pupils are open, 3 millimeters for pupillary reactive.
01:30
He's like kind of pulling away from me when I do any painful, like, squeeze his hand.
01:37
So again, it's given like a GPS is around mine.
01:40
Stand-in-bye for any questions.
01:43
The indication for the trauma code is the maxillofacial injury with airway compromise, is that correct?
01:53
It's a lower GCF, and then again, like his jaw is displaced to the left.
01:57
He's maintaining his airway for now, but I do think that there is probably like a risk that he will lose that, especially with all the facial injuries.
02:08
The President 411 Trauma Corona Arrival will have a room for you.
02:13
Christiana Clear, call us back, any update.
02:17
411 room and arrival, thank you.
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Location mentioned:
Ogletown Stanton Rd, Newark, DE 19718
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