medical response for elderly male with leg weakness, Moorefield WV
Medical EmergencyMedical responders attended to a 77-year-old male cancer patient found weak on a sofa near Powder Spring Road. The patient has weakness in both legs, a history of hypertension and diabetes, is alert with normal speech, and was last known normal about three hours prior.
Audio|Source: Hardy County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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I need to respond to near Powder Spring Road for a male individual.
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Copy that, chosen route.
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Okay, tanker 38 station available.
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Okay, 1040, sir, 1647.
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Their operators still ascertaining information if we get anything further.
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I don't have him to update you.
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Okay, thank you.
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5772, Shady in route.
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Already counting 21-4.
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Go ahead.
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He's going to have a 77-ish-year-old male.
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Most pertinent medical histories, he's a cancer patient.
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Family left when they come home this evening a few hours later.
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They found him on the sofa.
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He's got weakness to both lower extremities, not one side or the other.
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He's just able, two weeks to get up and walk around him when he does, he has a bad date.
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Does have history of hypertension,
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had a history of diabetes, but he was able to correct that by losing weight.
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Patient's alert, and the airway's patent.
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But... Stop yet.
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How many hours was he,
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was it when he's last known normal?
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Probably at least three.
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However,
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his speech is normal, no facial drawl.
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She can understand everything.
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He says he makes sense when he talks.
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All right, sounds good, thank you.
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Location mentioned:
Near Powder Spring Rd, Moorefield, WV 26836
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