Medical responders treat severe leg bleed after fall, Flint MI
Medical EmergencyEmergency responders treated a 77-year-old woman with a severe arterial bleed on her leg after she fell in her bathroom near North Belsay Road. A tourniquet was applied to control the bleeding while advanced assistance was requested. Efforts were made to safely remove her from the home to prevent further injury.
Audio|Source: Genesee County EMS
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178.A.11, we have uncontrolled arterial bleed.
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Can you get a rolling please? We're going to try working on getting her out of the house.
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Okay.
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324-Sanan Davison
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We're at you towards near North Belsay Road.
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We have a BLS unit on scene requesting ALS for a 77-year-old female,
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uncontrolled arterial bleed.
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They're trying to load her up now.
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Kathy.
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Oh, 324.
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Glass unit?
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Alpha 324. Can you have the crew talk to me on EMS2?
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A, room 12178.
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178. Can you go to EMS2 to talk to your ALS unit?
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Copy.
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178.
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Hey,
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what do you guys got? I just know arteria bleed.
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Arterial bleed to the left leg,
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this will put the knee.
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They have a home tourniquet on right now, and it's slowing the bleed just a tad, but once we move her, it's going to start up again.
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I've gotten any vitals just yet, but she did say that she was feeling dizzy earlier once she stood.
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All right, is this from, like, a dial suspicious site, or probably like a varicose thing or some sort of other traumatic injury?
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A traumatic injury from a fall.
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She fell on (name withheld) in the bathroom.
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All right, do what you guys can.
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If you can try to get your guys' zone cat tourniquet on there before I get there,
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just see if we can stop that bleeding.
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If not, just apply direct pressure.
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Copy, we'll do.
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Thank you, guys.
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Yep, he'd be able.
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And signer for both units be advised.
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You will have E-64 as well from Montmoreth and Clio.
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He advised to try to load and go and he'll attempt to catch up if the Patriot unit doesn't get there first.
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178 copy. We're having issues getting her out of the house without making it worse.
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324 copies.
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I've got three people plus, or I've got two people plus myself.
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So...
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Beautiful.
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I'll contact you guys if I have any more updates.
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Copy 324 to Center.
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I'll also contact E-64 if I'm going to need them for anything else, but I should be all set.
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Just have them slow roll.
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Copy, I'll let them out.
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Near N Belsay Rd, Flint, MI 48506
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