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Trauma
Intermediate
11 minute stationElderly Fall With Head Injury on Anticoagulants
Dispatch
Cat 2 — 82-year-old female, fall down stairs, head laceration, takes warfarin for AF.
On arrival
Patient found at bottom of stairs by neighbour, scalp laceration bleeding, brief loss of consciousness reported, now GCS 14 and confused about the fall.
Initial observations
- Airway
- Patent
- RR
- 20
- SpO2
- 95% on air
- Pulse
- 92 irregular
- BP
- 158/88 mmHg
- GCS
- 14 (E4 V4 M6)
- Pupils
- Equal and reactive, 3mm