Elderly man transported for altered mental status, Towson MD
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical services transported an elderly man from an assisted living facility to GBMC hospital for evaluation of altered mental status. The patient had a history of chronic urinary tract infection and recent hospitalizations. His condition included transient episodes of low blood pressure, but he was stable during transport.
Audio|Heard on: Baltimore MD Hospital Group Calls
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Transcript:
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Good afternoon, GBMC Baltimore County Medic 55.
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I am currently en route to your facility with about a 7 0 ETA on board.
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I am going to have a priority two seventy-eight year old male with the chief complaint of altered mental status.
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This is going to be an informational only consult.
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How do you copy?
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I'm coming in from an assisted living with a 78-year-old male who's been in and out of the hospital over the past about a week and a half.
00:28
With a chronic UTI, he's been treated at multiple different facilities.
00:33
Last discharge was on Saturday.
00:35
Staff said that since then he should have been generally declining or worse over the last two days.
00:41
Does have dementia baseline A and O times one, but they said he's just more confused than normal, leaning over in the chair and talking to himself, which is not his baseline.
00:50
Initially, upon arrival, he wasn't oriented times one.
00:54
Some difficulty following commands, but will do it with repeated prompting.
00:57
My initial blood pressure was 120 over seventy-two.
01:00
However, once we got him in the medic unit,
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an episode of hypotension went down into his seventies.
01:06
Staff said that just happens sometimes.
01:09
I gave him a 250 bolus of lactated ringers and I got his pressure up into the nineties.
01:14
No change in mentation with the episode of hypotension.
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Current vital signs are as follows.
01:18
I got a blood pressure of ninety-five over thirty-eight, a heart rate of seventy-seven and regular, three lead looks normal sinus.
01:24
Respiratory rate is 18, non-labored.
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He's ninety-seven percent on room air.
01:28
I have a blood sugar of 112.
01:29
Got 20 established in his left hand.
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Currently my lines and tented out of your negative.
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If you don't have any questions for me, I'll see you in about ten and I'll give you full history and allergies on my arrival.
01:41
County 55, GBMC has those as the questions.
01:44
Recontact is needed.
01:45
We'll see you almost in 10 minutes, GBMC.
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Location mentioned:
MD-139 Suite 5100, Towson, MD 21204
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