Man injured after falling through barn floor moving stove, Charlottesville VA
Medical EmergencyA 37-year-old man was injured after falling through the wooden floor of his barn while moving a heavy wood stove. He landed on his pelvis and sustained multiple pelvic fractures and possible bladder injury. He has not been able to urinate since the injury and is being transported by AirCare 5 to UVA hospital for treatment.
Audio|Source: UVA Helicopter Dispatch
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Transcript:
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Coming over from Rockingham Memorial with the 37th, that's a 37-year-old male.
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Around 14 hours this afternoon, he was attempting to move a large, like an iron wood stove on the loft of his barn, about 10 feet up off the ground.
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Fortly fell through the wood floor.
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Fell on him and landed on his pelvis.
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Sounds like he was only injured for a few seconds or maybe a minute or so before they were able to push it off of him.
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Tonight's getting his head design, a lot of consciousness.
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His pain is pretty much just in his pelvis.
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On Tiki over there, he has several different pelvic fractures.
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He's got a little bit of free fluid around his bladder as well.
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Since he has the urge to urnate but has not been able to do so.
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I'm sure these are all intact.
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He doesn't have any focal neurodeficence that I can see.
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He has controlled several realms of a couple different narcotics.
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He has not received any blood and has only gotten about a liter of fluid.
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By final sinus heart rate, 80, normal sinus, blast pressure, 102 over 70 for MAP 80.
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96% on room air, restary rates about 20.
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GCS is 15. That'll be in for report unless you anything else.
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Charlottesville, VA
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