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Parkinson's Case Summary

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The patient is a 93-year old gentleman who states that he went to eat breakfast but he did not eat anything didn't feel well for the past few days. The EMS reports says that when they were called they found the patient unresponsive in the kitchen chair. The family stated he was up acting normal 15 minutes prior to the BLS arrival. He was responsive to painful stimuli. They placed him on oxygen and he started to move his eyes. They noticed shaking in the right side of his body due to what the patient's family stated was Parkinson's disease. On presentation his initial blood pressure was169/103 with a pulse of 79, respirations of 11 and temperature 96.9. He was oxygenating well on room air. The patient's medical history is significant
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On 8/2/2015 SO EMT Perez was dispatched to FC-505 regaurding general sickness. SO EMT Perez knocked and announced his presence at the door and was greeted by the residents spouse and then to the resident in question, a Mrs. Barbra Myers. Mr. Myers stated that Mrs. Myers was feeling unwell for the past couple of days but today she was acting unusal and slurring/mubling her words and all around acting uncoordinated. Mrs. Myers seems to be somewhat disorientated but is answering all questions appropriatly. SO EMT Perez performed and assesment which revealed the following; Blood Pressure 148/72, Pulse 101, Spo2 96%, Mrs. Myers is very hot to the touch but does not appear to be perspiring, SO EMT Perez recieved a temperature reading from Mr. Myers '

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On 8/1/2015 S/O EMT Perez was dispatched to FC-609 regarding a fall. S/O EMT Perez announced hispresnece and knocked at the door and was verbally greeted in by the resident. The fallen resident, a Mrs. Ida Looney stated she lost her balance and fell while trying to get up from the living room couch and was unable to get up on her own strength, Mrs. Looney was on the couch by the time S/O EMT Perez arrived. Mrs. Looney stated that; she was unaware of any change in medications nor was she aware that she was on any blood thinners, She did recall and remember the fall and was unaware and or could not recolect weather or not she was seeing a doctor here at riderwood. Mrs. Looney seemed to be a bit complacent mentally to which her spouse said was

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The case to be presented involves the details surrounding the death of Mrs. Ursuline Alfred while under the care of the Hollywood Medical Center, now named Memorial Regional Hospital South, on May 18, 1996. Mrs. Ursuline was a forty-five year old female believed to have suffered a seizure in her home at approximately 1930. She was found on the floor by her husband, after shouting “My head”, in a coma-like state. Mr. Alfred activated EMS and the patient was transported to HMC immediately. While in transport, Mrs. Alfred recovered and EMS recorded “near normal” vitals at 0800 per the District Court of Appeals of the State of Florida (2012).

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I felt an intense pain shoot into my chest and neck, and I had to run to the bathroom as fast as my disabled body would allow me to. I heard my mother scream out “Dustin, what’s wrong?” but I couldn’t answer her, all of the soft food that I had tried to eat had come back up, and this was just the first of thousands of times that this would happen over the next nine months. This incident previously described happened on Thanksgiving Day 2014, I was recovering from a surgery that I just had three day prior in order to repair a hiatal hernia. Little did the doctors, my family, or I know that a plethora of other problems would soon arise.

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