Rescue assists older woman with back pain on hillside, Beaverton OR
Medical EmergencyRescue teams assisted a 70-year-old woman with back pain and breathing difficulty near Southwest Meadowlark Lane. She was stable and prepared to self-assist walking up a rope handline due to difficult terrain. A stretcher extraction would take much longer.
Audio|Source: Washington County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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Go ahead.
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I'm from M.R.
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132. We were responding to call on Southwest Meadowlark Lane coming from
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Nemesis and Shoals.
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Copy, 2353.
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June 66, Hammer 132 en route for code one back pain near Southwest Meadowlark Lane.
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Patient is a 70-year-old female, conscious, difficulty breathing due to pain.
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Nothing further.
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It's just 6-6, colleagues.
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Medicines, Dr.
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122 copies, thank you.
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Defensive.
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President. President.
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Okay,
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I touch base with Team One, who's with her.
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They're reporting she is stable,
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she's resting,
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and she has an elevated heart rate.
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And she is saying the way she got to where she is, is by following the blue and white tape that was already present when she walked down.
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which from my understanding and Team 1's understanding, that is where we got to originally,
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and we ended up turning around and coming to where we are now, if that makes sense.
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So it's going to be pretty close to the original blue line extraction, so I don't know if that's the route we want to look at doing then.
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Yeah, well, so Team 1 said she is willing to walk out with the assistance of the handline, and it sounds like she is open to making that happen if we want to explore that route.
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I just don't know if that doesn't end up working if that puts it in a tougher spot.
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So they're willing to try it, it sounds like.
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So confirming when you say handline, just do the top rope down what they use their ropes to get, and then just someone walk with her up it.
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Yeah, from my understanding, they would set up a line, and she would use that line to just assist herself up, and they would help her out.
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They said if they were to do a littered extraction from what they're seeing, it would be a 10 to 15-hour extraction.
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Location mentioned:
SW Meadowlark Ln, Beaverton, OR 97007
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