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For example, if you hit your head, you could be experiencing bleeding in your brain that you are unaware of. This head injury can also manifest as an altered level of consciousness (i.e. acting strangely or being unaware of your surroundings). We want to know what medications you take because if you take a blood thinning medication (which prevents your blood from clotting to stop bleeding), any small injury could turn bad and fast. Lastly, we want to know why you fell to make sure we aren’t missing a medical issue that CAUSED the fall. Falls can be due to mechanical issues, like tripping or losing your balance, or they can be due to a medical issue, like a cardiac issue which made you pass out. We are looking for any loss of consciousness/memory before/during your fall here. Now, let’s assume you convince your patient to go to the hospital because they can’t remember how they fell and they aren’t acting right. You have to figure out how to get your patient from the floor to the hospital. Your patient fell while they were trying to stand up after using the bathroom and landed in between the toilet and the shower (this is often referred to as the Bermuda triangle of EMS… see a picture right). Imagine trying to maneuver a heavy patient out of this small area. Your patient is overweight and is not able to get up on their own. You might use a tool like a patient mover (a glorified mat with handles - see below) to lift your patient off of the ground. There are several issues here. Your patient is too heavy to be lifted by you and your partner alone. Now you need some help from firefighters (who you probably should have asked your dispatcher for as soon as you walked in the door because they are 10 minutes away). Your patient didn’t just happen to fall on this mat. How will you get it under them? 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You turn on your lights and sirens and navigate through traffic, changing your siren pattern at every intersection, and eventually reverse your gigantic ambulance into someone’s small residential driveway (we always reverse into places for a quick exit). You walk into the house and find an elderly woman on the ground not in any apparent distress and no blood is visible on the floor. Immediately, you don’t find any obvious life threats (her airway, breathing, and circulation seem to be intact). There’s two ways this call can go. Most of the time it is simple, you can help the woman to her feet and get her back in bed after reviewing the risks of not going to the hospital after she assures you that she is not injured. It can also be complicated… When someone (especially at this age) falls we as EMTs want to know some important information (here are just a few of them): Did you hit your head? How did you fall? Are you in any head/chest/neck/back pain? 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