Person found with altered mental status and foaming, Durham NC
Medical EmergencyDispatchers and medics coordinate a response to a medical emergency at Hillandale Road and Front Street. The patient is conscious and breathing but has altered mental status and may be having a seizure. Medics note foaming and saliva at the nose and mouth. The patient will not say what substances, if any, were taken, and some units are canceled after assessment.
Audio|Source: Durham City Fire
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Unknown EMS problem at Hillandale Road and Front Street. Unknown EMS problem, Hillandale Road and Front Street. Ladder 2, 3,000 Irwin Road crash, 3,000 Irwin Road, cross of Lambeth Circle and Marine Road. Rescue 1, Quint 11, Engine 10, Squad 4, Battalion 1 NBC, North Guthrie Avenue and East Main Street. Engine 3. Communications for medics: I think we're there. Take it on the nose, can you request an echo response? 4 from engine 4, go ahead. Check your light. Medics, I have the patient, conscious, alert right at this point. For our communications, do copy. You can just keep us around. Copy that. We appreciate it. Yeah, if we could be 10th, go ahead. 10-4. You said they're conscious, alert and breathing, is that right? I'd say conscious and breathing, probably altered mental status. Still trying to get what his symptoms are, a convulsion at this time, but so able to speak with it. 10-4. I was going to go ahead and cancel the other unit and supervisor if you're cool with that. And the patient was found with foaming and saliva coming out of both nose and mouth. Patient is unwilling to tell me what they took.
Unknown EMS problem at Hillandale Road and Front Street. Unknown EMS problem, Hillandale Road and Front Street. Ladder 2, 3,000 Irwin Road crash, 3,000 Irwin Road, cross of Lambeth Circle and Marine Road. Rescue 1, Quint 11, Engine 10, Squad 4, Battalion 1 NBC, North Guthrie Avenue and East Main Street. Engine 3. Communications for medics: I think we're there. Take it on the nose, can you request an echo response? 4 from engine 4, go ahead. Check your light. Medics, I have the patient, conscious, alert right at this point. For our communications, do copy. You can just keep us around. Copy that. We appreciate it. Yeah, if we could be 10th, go ahead. 10-4. You said they're conscious, alert and breathing, is that right? I'd say conscious and breathing, probably altered mental status. Still trying to get what his symptoms are, a convulsion at this time, but so able to speak with it. 10-4. I was going to go ahead and cancel the other unit and supervisor if you're cool with that. And the patient was found with foaming and saliva coming out of both nose and mouth. Patient is unwilling to tell me what they took.
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Hillandale Rd & Front St, Durham, NC 27705
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