Medical emergency near Shady Grove Hospital, Rockville MD
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Medical EmergencyAccording to the dispatch call, emergency personnel responded to a possible stroke involving an elderly man showing left-sided weakness and temporary slurred speech. The patient was being transported from Montgomery County to Shady Grove Hospital. He had recently discontinued blood thinner medication ahead of surgery.
Audio|Heard on: Montgomery MD Hospital Group Calls
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Transcript:
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And with 724 Bravo's on H2, awaiting Shady Grove Hospital.
00:06
Shady Grove online, go ahead.
00:09
I have an eighty-four-year-old male stroke alert coming in with a lab four.
00:13
Patient cannot feel touching at all on his left side from toe up to head.
00:20
Left arm very weak and lift for the right.
00:25
Slurred speech was there and now has since gone away.
00:27
However, everything else is still present.
00:30
We should be there in about 20 minutes.
00:34
How do you copy? I am sorry, files are as follows.
00:37
Power of attorney.
00:38
Eighty-nine pulse on ninety-seven percent, blood pressure 147 over 93, blood sugar 182.
00:44
How do you copy?
00:45
Chief, I have copies.
00:46
Can you just repeat? I am sorry, the symptoms again.
00:49
What is new and what time did it start?
00:52
Start time about 15 to 20 minutes ago.
00:55
Twenty minutes ago from now, they said 5:45, 17:45.
00:59
Symptoms are left-sided weakness while standing up and also got weak on the left.
01:05
When we were there, he could not feel my hand in his hand on the left side as well as could not feel touching up the entire left side of his body.
01:14
Slurred speech was there and now it seems to have resolved itself, but other symptoms are still present.
01:21
Do we have if this patient is on any blood thinners?
01:24
The patient was on a blood thinner and they had a venous event in the fall.
01:28
However, he has stopped taking his blood thinners for the last three weeks due to a surgery coming up.
01:35
And will you repeat his age again, please?
01:39
Oh, sorry. Can you repeat that? I did not understand you.
01:42
The age and your unit number, please.
01:46
I apologize.
01:47
It's going to be an eighty-four-year-old male, unit number 724 Bravo.
01:52
Copy, we'll see on arrival at the patient scale with the patient information.
01:58
Name of 724 Bravo is off H2.
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Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD 20850
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