Medical response for possible dental infection in elderly man, Berkeley County WV
Medical EmergencyEmergency medical service attended to an 83-year-old man near Spring Warbler Way, Mecklenburg Heights, for a possible infection caused by a broken dental pick. The patient showed mood and behavioral changes and was transported to a veterans hospital for evaluation. He has a history of hypertension, heart surgery, strokes, and other conditions, and is currently stable but disoriented due to dementia.
Audio|Source: Berkeley County Fire & EMS
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Transcript:
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Sick person,
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near Spring Warbler Way, Mecklenburg Heights.
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Permanic Reasons service.
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Copymatic Reign Service, 1034-hour.
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165 status check.
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104.910.
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104.
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Martinsburg VA,
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Martinsburg Medic 4.
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VA, Martinsburg Medic 4.
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VA, EAR, go ahead.
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According to your facility, BLS transport,
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for an 83, 83-year-old male patient,
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chief complaint,
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possible infection, according to patient's daughter.
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The patient's daughter states the patient had some mood swings, behavioral changes within the last few days.
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I believe that he may have caused an infection.
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by breaking a dental pick within his teeth, states she called the VA,
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was advised to have him sent in for evaluation.
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Patient is calm, collected,
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cooperative.
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He has a GCS of 456.
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He is alert, oriented to person and events,
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not time and place due to dementia.
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Let's have a history of hypertension,
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triple bypass,
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multiple strokes,
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hyperlipathemia, patient does take blood centers along with other medications available on its file, he has no known allergies.
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Blood pressure of 162 over 78, heart rate of 68, restitory rate of 16, that 96% on room air.
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skin is pink form dry, pupils or purl, lungs downs are clear and equal bilaterally.
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We have about a six-minute EPA to your facility.
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