Woman experiences seizure after quitting heavy drinking, Petoskey MI
Medical EmergencyA 41-year-old woman at Boundier's facility in Petoskey had seizure-like convulsions after abruptly stopping heavy alcohol use. She was slow to respond with slurred speech but answered questions appropriately. She was transported for medical care at McLaren ER.
Audio|Source: Emmet County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Claire and you are 40 Alpha 7. We're in Boundier's facility with a 41-year-old female from downtown of Patasca here.
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We got called out for seizure-like activity.
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Patient sounds like she's been going through some family problems. She's been drinking quite a bit lately. Sounds like she went cold turkey off of alcohol about four days ago. Had been drinking about a fifth a day before that.
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I was sitting on the couch, playing games with family, and then started to go into convulsions, what they described, sounds like grandma's seizure.
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PSO showed up unseen.
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She was pretty slow to respond, kind of tired, and sort of slurring her speech for them.
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She was answering questions appropriately.
00:50
Everything appears to be accurate, but she does seem a bit slow to respond, is a bit slurring in her speech.
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Her biggest complaint to me was originally that she said she felt dizzy with no headache.
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Now she says that she's no longer dizzy, doesn't have any pain.
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She's tacking a long sinus tack in the one teens to one-twenties.
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SVO2 has been 97, 98 on room air.
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Blood pressure last was in the 170s over the 130s.
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She said she was in the hospital earlier today, got checked out, have blood pressures in the 240s over 130s. I don't know if that's accurate.
01:28
Do you have IV access established for you folks with a blood draw.
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Glucose was in the 150s.
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Patient initials are going to be (name withheld).
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Pays of Birth is (number withheld), and we're setting up to stop late. We'll see you guys in about a minute.
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